(i>) Annual report issue '"'.>s_,g,~ e 200 years of freedom & fraternity COMMENT CONTENTS
Vol. 87 No. 1 Sept. 1976
4. Annual report for 1975-76 A puzzling year. 12. What n KA 's coat-of-arms means The crest described in Heraldry; Heraldry described in English. 16. What nKA means to me 12 famous alumni re live their fraternity experience. By Jerry Reel individual to know himself and 30. The envoy of America President understand his peers. Built onto Diplomat Wayne that foundation are a series of Fisher profiled. Our Fraternity defines its excellent activities, specific 44. Remaking the grade objectives in two documents, the training for Fraternity office, Gradeflation is Preamble and the Constitution. development of chapter gobbling up the old All of us are more than familiar interrelationships, aid to the Greek gimmick. with the Preamble, the phrases alumnus who seeks employment, of which point to friendship, programs of travel and insurance. mutual benefit and individual But the first objective named, interests; but, few of us recall the educational and literary Departments: the equally important words of activities, is too often left 2. Comment 3. Forum 25. Alum the Constitution (Article I, undone. The Memorial ni 32. History 34. Contributors Section 2). Therein the Foundation has created a series 47. Update objectives of the Fraternity are of programs, including declared to be three-fold. First, recognition of individual the advancement of the academic excellence, reward for Editor: R. John Kaegi, educational and literary interests rn chapter academic excellence, Copy Editor: Renee Pierucci of the members; second, the and scholarships and loans. promotion of social intercourse; The Fraternity, however, has and third, the maintenance of a had great difficulty in addressing high standard of life and the educational objective. Shield & Diamond is an educational happiness for the members. journal published by the Pi Kappa It is my belief that no greater Alpha Fraternity, 577 University, To the new member the second long-range problem faces our Memphis, Tn. 38112, five times per objective, that of social Fraternity than the translation year I Manuscripts are invited I intercourse, appears most of each of the three objectives Changes of address should be reported important. It is certainly visible into rewarding, pragmatic promptly to the editor, giving full name, chapter, old and new address I signs of the Fraternity whether programs. Then, and only then, that social intercourse be dinner Undergraduat~s' copies are sent to can that great Latin word, their home address I Second Class at the house, a party with a band, fraternitas, belong to us. postage paid at Memphis, Tn . or an all-hours discussion session. It is important, however, that social intercourse transcend Postmaster: Send change of address on the peer group, that it reaches Form 3579 to 577 University, Mem out to touch the alumnus, the phis, Tn. 38U2. parents and the many friends of ' the Fraternity. Otherwise such a social life loses substance. Cover: Sketches provided by Brother The third named objective is Don Reynolds, E (Central Arkansas). being addressed now in a way that shows commitment. At its base lies the Leadership Training Program, designed to assist the COUIOI N.ATIINrTY-· IOfTOti.S ASSOCI.AnoN FORUM
Life after death the members of the Pi Kappa Alpha with a total case figure of 9,000,000. Fraternity, but we also wanted you to It is called "alcoholism." I am not surprised by your recent know of this fine project. Si nee college fraternities suffer article in the March issue concerning most in the public's eye, justly or un author and fraternal brother William Faithfully yours, justly, because of their reputation as Welch. Many thousands of people are (The Rev.) J. T. Naper drinking clubs, perhaps the bold stroke now becoming interested in communi Vicar needed to cut the "Gordian Knot" - cating with the world of the dead. I, Grace Episcopal Church and kill several birds with one stone - too, believe that there is life after would be to opt some form of research death, but I strongly question whether He can write too! or education designed to help solve the the departed dead are able to com· alcohol problem. municate with the living. I believe the Very much enjoyed your two articles Thank you. living can and do communicate with in the March Shield & Dinmond. someone or something, but I do not "Fraternity" was an interesting insight Carl Portz Alumnus believe they are in touch with the into the chapter experience - it made rz departed dead. you feel like you were right in the One of the vows I can remember fraternity house. You are to be commended for bringing taking as a nKA was this, "I believe in The feature on Rick Dees, "The the issue of the sponsorship of a God." If we truly believed in this vow Mouth of the South," was thoroughly national philanthropy by Pi Kappa we were taking, it would also infer enjoyable. I would encourage more Alpha to the attention of the members that we believe in a spiritual world sur "human interest" articles of this sort. in such a factual manner. Such rounding God. The Bible gives us There are many fascinating men in sponsorship could provide much much light concerning God's spiritual Pi Kappa Alpha - and the Shield & needed assistance for organizations world, but it also gives us much light Diamond offers us an opportunity to where the emphasis is on community concerning a spiritual world in get to know them on a one-to-one assistance rather than fund raising. opposition to God. As a believer in basis. Thanks for Ed Pease's literary Might I suggest, however, that national God, I believe that I can personally contributions. I knew he was effective sponsorship and local sponsorship are communicate with him because of my in alumni affairs- it's nice to know he not mutually exclusive. Indeed local relationship with God's Son Jesus can write too! groups are often able to provide the Christ. I believe all others who try to most valuable contribution of all, communicate with the world of the Fraternally, namely their time. dead are in fact in communication Gary Sallquist In this respect I am particuularly pleased with your evaluation of the with the spiritual world in opposition ~X Alumnus and to God. Past National President Big Brothers of American program to William Jennings Bryan was right provide fatherless boys with adult when he said, "Destiny is not a matter com pan ionsh ip. The enthusiastic of chance, it is a matter of choice." I Philanthropies: pro & con response you received from their would like to add this thought, "Your national office and local chapter are eternal destiny is also not a matter of Was pleased to see your article about typical of the outlook and attitude chance, it is a matter of choice." the pros and cons of national philan which characterize this organization. thropies. Speaking from personal experience as Fraternally, The 1974 effort that produced a former Big Brother in Seattle, I can Joseph A. Clem $150,000 for the Muscular Dystrophy tell you that something as minor as a ~E (Chattanooga) Association was probably the most pair of tickets to watch the Sonics commendable big deal the Fraternity means a great deal to a boy in the has so far experienced to improve the program. It shows him that someone Pikes inspire congregation public image of Greeks. cared enough to let him share an The option you suggest that the experience that many of us take for The purpose of this letter is to inform Fraternity become identified as a real granted. It is an interesting coinci you of the service project recently supporter of a worthy national dence that Pi Kappa Alpha and the Big completed by members of the Pi philanthropy surely is one of the best Brothers share the same goal of Kappa Alpha Fraternity at South ways ever proposed for bringing the promoting self reliance through associ western University here in George. idea or principle of Greek societies up ation with others. town. The group in conjunction witr to date. And it is not "notoriety" that Fraternally, members of the Zeta Tau Alpha soror· is wanted or being pursued. It is rather Gary Forrest ity almost completely scraped the respect and understanding. Such Be (Cornell) exterior of the Grace Episcopal attributes have to be earned - and Church building. We had hoped to get even learned. And college is a "lear the building prepared for a new coat ning" process. Editor's note: We hoped to have room of paint by April 10. Due to the Now, if I may, perhaps I can point to run several letters received asking efforts of the above two groups we out one aspect of the table on page 7 for support for charities such as the were able to begin painting on April 3. that may escape the average casual American Diabetes Associntion and They did a good job and were a great reader. Of the twenty "disease or the American Cancer Society in re inspiration to members of the local handicap" classifications listed in the sponse to our March issue article congregation. order of their estimated prevalence, "Brother, can ya spare a grand?"Their My special thanks and those of the only one of these is entirely man letters were too long and our space congregation have been conveyed to made. And it ranks third in occurrence too tight to oblige.
3 s we begin our second century, we are caught up in the Bicen TOP 10 FRATERNITIE (by number of chapter ) tennial spirit and the contem plations which follow. 1. Tau Kappa Epsilon . 312 Pi Kappa lpha has existed for 2. Lambda Chi Alpha . 201 over 108 years. During that 3. Sigma Phi Epsilon. .199 period, challenges and tragedies 4. Sigma Alpha Epsilon. . 185 have often prevented fraternity 5. Kappa Sigma .176 development. World wars, . 6. Sigma u .... .172 depressions, recessions, anti 7. PI KAPPA ALPHA .168 fraternity cults have all dented 7 . Sigma Chi . . . . . 168 the armor. We have stepped 9. Theta Chi. . . . . 145 forward always, regaining our 9. Alpha Tau Omega. .145 balance after the most damaging of jolts. FRATERNITY GROWTH -1975-76 The year 1975-76 was an enigma. While the economy Fraternity Gain (Loss) seemingly improved and while 1. PI KAPPA ALPHA 4 the campus mood remained very 1. Sigma Nu .... 4 affable with few really radical 3. Sigma Phi Epsilon. 2 causes, fraternities in general did 3. Lambda Chi Alpha 2 not make significant advances. 5. Sigma Chi . . . . 1 Among the ten largest frater 5. Sigma Alpha Epsilon 1 nities (by total chapters), the 7. Alpha Tau Omega. membership experience was 0 relatively consistent. A com 7. Theta Chi . . . . 0 parison of pledging and initiation 7. Kappa Sigma . . 0 statistics within this group ranges 10. Tau Kappa Epsilon (7) from a decrease of two percent to an increase of about four percent. There were minor continuous leadership on both exceptions, but most growth was The reorganization fronts. negligible. We have now completed two Regional presidents have all We believe Pi Kappa Alpha's years of operation under the implemented regional con slight increase in initiations and reorganization of the national ferences with significant in small decrease in pledgings was officer and regional structure. creases in attendance each year. caused by a general inability of The effects have been pro Their conferences concentrated our chapters to convince rushees ductive, and clearly more on skills undergraduates need to of the advantages of fraternity efficient than the former district successfully run their chapters, a membership. Many chapters program. Where we once had popular subject among the seem to find comfort in the district president vacancies and participants. relazed campus attitude today too few chapter advisors, we now As a reorganization adden and are taking an apathetic have a complete host of regional dum, we need to consider approach to increasing their presidents and effective chapter combining the two housing arms membership to stability levels. advisors. They have provided of the Fraternity, the Chapter House Commission and the Real phis. The response has been so nearly double alumni gifts, many Estate Management Commission. overwhelming, the Supreme new alumni associations and There is a possibility to co Council has underlined the increased alumni involvement. mingle the funds of these two gravity of the meetings by Separating the alumni and com and consolidate our vital work in budgeting partial funding for munications field proved advan chapter housing. These consider distant chapters to attend. There tageous. It allowed a complete ations should be taken up by the are three presidents conferences revision and reprinting of the 1976 Bicentennial Convention. slated for 1976-77 and a pos Garnet & Gold Membership nKA Programs sibility of more. Manual and the publishing of the The chapter consultant pro Fraternity Bicentennial History The chapter presidents con gram received continued provided as a favor at the Bicen ference has been probably the emphasis, providing chapters tennial Convention. Both areas singularly most important pro with counsel from six recent will receive continued full-time gram implemented in the past nKA graduates who have under attention. two years. Since the Vail Con gone extensive training. Recent vention, over 110 chapter presi Chapter growth variations of the program to pro The most recent chapters dents have gained from these vide more specialized aid in the important meetings designed to inducted into Pi Kappa Alpha areas of rush and chapter show the Fraternity's intent to orient newly elected chapter development will continue. leaders to their management and expand to prominent campuses The alumni program received or to schools which previously leadership responsibilities. An renewed emphasis last year. The intense agenda is followed at the supported n KA chapters. New results were outstanding with chapters in 1975-76 are located two-day conferences held at the some 28,000 address corrections, Memorial Headquarters in Mem- at Texas A&M, Tyler Junior Col-
Retention Pledging Initiations Although the percentage of pledges An increase of 200 pledges recorded A slight increase recorded in both who are initiated was off slightly in in 1974-75, but decrease of 27 in 1974-75 and 1975-76 over previous 1974-75, it started back up in 1975-76 1975-76. All signs point up. figures. and should continue up.
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5 lege (Texas), Loyola-Marymount (California) and Northern Iowa. New the year before were chap ters at Delaware and South Carolina (both re-chartered) and at Northeast Oklahoma State University. Colonies now exist at the University of Oregon, also a re chartering effort, Creighton and Massachusetts. Prospects for expansion are excellent. We anticipate an early effort at Baylor and are moving ahead at Indiana University Southeast and the University of Louisville. We are considering returning to the University of Southern California, Wisconsin and Rutgers. Alumni support and conducive environments are both looking positive for revitalization efforts. By continuing and improving n K A's alumni program and by meeting chapter problems head on in the consultant and con ference areas, we hope to im prove last year's mediocre membership statistics. Our goal is to heighten undergraduate and alumni interest in the Fraternity and to generously spice the Fraternity experience with enthusiasm and knowledge.
n K A's 10 Largest Chapt ers 1975-7 6 Pledgi ngs 1975-76 Initiations
Total In it iates 1. t:.A (Florida State) 59 1. t:./\ (Florida State) 53 2. AE. (Cincinnati) 56 2. B
7 Distinguished Achievement Award Dr.Maleolm C. Todd
What do you do when you discover one of your Dr. Todd is president-elect of the International alumni is president of the American Medical College of Surgeons and one of the original Association? A world traveler, lecturer and envoy? members of the board of regents of the Uniformed A noted surgeon who rose through the ranks and Services University of the Health Sciences created to who is former President Richard Nixon's personal train physicians and allied health personnel to meet physician? needs of the military. In 197 4, President Ford You write about him as quickly as possible. appointed him to the Citizens Action Committee And, then, when you learn he is also a warm, to fight inflation and to the Conference on compassionate human being who is not afraid to Economic Stabilization. Last year he was say things like "doctors need to develop a strong appointed by the President to the National social consciousness," and to meet the medical Advisory Committee on Refugees. world's shortcomings head on, you nominate him During World War II, Dr. Todd was chief of for the Fraternity's highest honor the surgical service at several major general hospitals in Distinguished Achievement Award. Europe. He was president of the California Medical Dr. Malcolm Todd (Beta Eta- illinois), a main Association from 1967-1968. He is a member of speaker at n KA 's 1976 Bicentennial Celebration several professional associations and has published Convention, is the 1976 numero uno of Pi Kappa scientific papers on many subjects. In 1975 he Alpha. became the first physician upon whom Brown As immediate past president of the AMA, Dr. University conferred its honorary Doctor of Todd has not relaxed his travel schedule - 36,000 Medical Science Degree. miles a month with trips to exotic lands like China Brother Todd is indeed a distinguished alumnus where he led a delegation of American medical of Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. He reflects, even men as well as scores of medical schools around the more, the Fraternity's purpose, to temper know nation. Dr. Todd, who has practiced continuously ledge and insight with love of the brotherhood of as a solo general surgeon in Long Beach, California, man. is one of the nation's foremost authorities on health manpower. Loyalty Award D1·.Patd G. Blf)ttlll
"Paul Blount is a well-respected man of ability who chapter installed in 1960. has served our Fraternity many times in the past. Brother Blount began his n KA affiliation as We are extremely pleased he has consented to do alumnus counselor. His service to the Fraternity so once again." includes a revision of A History of Pi Kappa Alpha With those words, National President Charles L. and the cradling of four reprintings since then. He Freeman announced the 1966 appointment of Dr. was secretary-treasurer and later president of the Paul G. Blount as National Historian replacing the Atlanta Alumni Association, president of district late Dr. Freeman H. Hart. Praises of loyalty were eight for three years and chaired the nominating being heaped upon him even then, only six years committee at the 1974 Vail Convention. He also after his initiation by Epsilon Nu chapter (Georgia served ably on the long-standing Ritual committee State) where Dr. Blount was their faculty advisor. and has been a member of the education com A decade later Dr. Blount is the soft-spoken mittee. He writes a regular Shield & Diamond gentleman Historian who may know more about department and has always answered the n KA call nKA 's history that any other alumnus despite his when needed. relatively recent initiation. His loyalty and dedi Dr. Blount is a distinguished educator, too. He cated work have molded him into one of the heads the Georgia State University English Depart Fraternity's most respected "old timers" in the ment and is a well published writer. admiring eyes of n K A undergraduates who ·He is Pi Kappa Alpha's 1976 recipient of the probably are astounded that he was initiated by a coveted Loyalty Award.
9 The chapters above are trongly encouraged to me t their rental obligations. The Commi. ion expr sses appreciation to Alpha, Gamma Omega and Zeta Rho chapters for meeting their rental schedules last year. The ommis ion also expresses its gratitude to Douglas W. laughter who is retiring from the Commission this year. Brother laughter provided fai thful and energetic talent to the Commission for th last four years.
Richard Ralph Chairman
Pi Kappa Alpha Endowment Fund
The past two years have been eventful for the Endowment Fund. DeHaven Develin, former Phila delphia banker, was appointed as a trustee, due to the death of John Yerkovich, who had served for many years. Dehaven has been invaluable to Ross Anderson and me in the administration of this fund. Last year your trustees decided to administer this fund without the assistance of a professional staff. In so doing, we were able to save about $6,000 in fees. We also disposed of several non performing stocks that have been slow movers and poor income producers in the portfolio. These stocks were replaced with blue chip types more in k eping with this ecology age. At the present time, your trustees are analyzing the entire portfolio in order to strive for results better than the market averages as considered over a market cycle - results that will combat the ravages of inflation, while producing the income deemed necessary with careful preservation of capital. In January this year $25,000 was added to the fund by the Supreme Council. the first new money added in the past 30 years. Your fund is generating sufficient income, which has increased in the past two years in order to take care of the leadership development programs of our Fraternity. At the present time the Pi Kappa Alpha Endow ment Fund has a book value of approximately $1 .1 million, up almost $400,000 since the last con vention. We have confidence in the future of the market and feel the only way the fund can go is up. We appreciate the advice and counsel given us by our auditor, Jack Lux.
Virgil R . McBroom Chairman EP (Idaho State) Silent 107 1975-76 membership statistics El: (Tenn.-Martin) 39 29 449 ET (Eastern New Mex.) 26 11 265 E'l' (Gannon Coil.) 20 17 309 E
11 Gules, the Greek letters Pi Kappa Alph base all within a riveted bordure argent the escutcheon is a key and a sword cr the sword being grasped by a human h1 Greek letters Phi Phi Kappa Alpha. B of lilies of the valley, leaved and flowe1
What the "'ITKA Coat-of-Arms means Bv L. G. Balfour
'We must get back to our altars!" Heraldry developed with and out of a system of Dr. Francis W. hepardson, president of the Beta medieval military aristocracy which reached the Theta Pi Fraternity, sounded this keynote of the highest points of its perfection near the end of the trend of thought in progressive fraternity circles at seventeenth century. The history of that time the lfist Interfraternity Conference. It is a natural revolved about the feudal system which intimately reaction to the situation we are facing today as a touched every phase of life, including not only the result of the modem type of fraternity, patterned religious and economic structure of society, but along the lines of a social club. social life as well. In the evolution of this building program to Because of the inadequacy of governments - the meet the ever-changing conditions of fraternity national concept had not met with the acceptance life, the undergraduate fraternity man has lost that we afford it today - the lords of the manor many of the charming experiences which he were supreme in their domains. Each banded enjoyed in the more intimate· association with his together his vassals - sometimes with those of fraternity brothers: And with this tendency toward other lords -to do service for the king, although the club life has been lost a little· of that mystic more often each lord fought independently as he something known as fraternity spirit. willed. Under the lords or nobles were the knights, In the definite attempt to circumvent the and these fighting men were considered the disadvantages of modern conditions a greater gentlemen of the times. Book knowledge was emphasi is being placed upon the ritual, involving confined to the monasteries and culture was the idealism ponsored by the fraternity as well as known only at the royal courts. stres ing a better acquaintance with the auxiliary The knights wore mail armor as a protection in symbol used in this work such as the fraternity combat and when thus encumbered they lost much badge, the pledge pin, the coat-of-arms. of their identity. In order to restore this lost In order to better understand the advantages identity and to distinguish friend from foe they which a more thorough knowledge of the armorial decorated their shields with whatever devices their bearings of Pi Kappa lpha will give, we are going minds might fancy. These devices formed the basis to relate something oncerning the background of for the coat-of-arms design. Later, when the crown this important piece of insignia. We will show how assumed the right to grant arms to worthy and it originated and why the idea was sponsored by loyal henchmen, the designing of this insignia was the merican college fraternitie . We will also developed into more or less standard form coat explain omething of the technical composition of of armor. the Pi Kappa Alpha escutcheon itself. The Greek-letter fraternity system is as old as
12 iin honor point and a dagger palewi~~ in middle tLnd surmounted by an esquire's helmet. Behind ' . sed saltierwise and joined in base by a chain, td erased. Also a scroll fessewise bearing the •w the escutcheon, a ribbon joining two stems 1d proper. The whole achievement radiant.
our own federal government, but its adaptation of consisting of the torse and some device repre heraldic devices is comparatively a recent develop· senting the crest proper. Under the shield is usually ment. The arms of Beta Theta Pi were designed placed a motto inscribed upon a ribbon. On the about 1869; those of Phi Gamma Delta in 1879; formal arms and especially those of nobility are those of Delta Tau Delta in 1888 and Sigma Chi shown supporters on either side of the shield, but approved their armorial bearings in 1889. in common with many college fraternities, the The designer of the original Pi Kappa Alpha arms of Pi Kappa Alpha are much abbreviated. coat-of-arms is unknown although one was used by Inasmuch as the terms of heraldry are derived the mother chapter previous to 1889. Its shape was mainly from the old Norman French and are similar to the pin and various symbols of brother peculiar to heraldry just as the terminology of law, hood were shown on its face. The 1892 convention architecture, et cetera is appropriate only to those officially adopted what was termed a coat-of-arms professions, it is necessary to elaborate to some consisting of a massive castle, moated and turreted, extent so that the blazonry may be more readily with a gate in two parts, and a semi-circle over it understood. with the capital Greek letters, n K A. The motto English heraldry is used as the source for the appeared on the foundation stones. A Greek design of practically all the armorial bearings used soldier stood guard over the open right hand door in this country. However, the English were strongly with a long spear in his hand. He wore a key on the influenced by the French due to the invasion under right side of his soldier's belt and a dagger on the William the Conqueror. French, the language of the left. conquerors, became the polite language of the day Alpha's original design was readopted in 1893. and so it naturally followed t hat when arms were In 1907 Maxwell W. Smith, Omega, proposed the granted they could only be correctly described in present coat-of-arms and the convention of 1909 the actual terms used by those in power and thus incorporated it into the constitution. Slight we account for the strong French influence in the changes were made later for copyright purposes. blazon. Before we can describe the coat-of-arms of the It should be pointed out that in giving the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity, it will be necessary to description of the n K A coat-of-arms, we must briefly explain some of the essential details con confine ourselves to the general meaning, in cerning heraldic achievements. heraldric circles, of symbols. Fraternities generally A coat-of-arms usually consists of a shield or assign specific interpretations which are explained escutcheon above which is shown a helmet, draped only in the ritual and these frequently depart from in a mantling. Above the helmet is the crest the ancient meanings.
13 " Gules" is the heraldic term for red. It i the Phi Kappa Alpha, the initials of the ecret motto. nearest approach to the garnet color of Pi Kappa Below the escutcheon is a graceful ribbon lpha but it has the same connotation and holding two stem of lilie of the valley which are sy mbolistic meaning, namely, courage and bravery. represented proper or in their natural color . Th These are the cardinal virtues of the fraternity man lily of the valley is the flower of the fraternity and and when blended with the sense of loyalty form has allusion to the beautie of a peaceful and the fitting background for fraternity life. purposeful life. The whole achievement i radiant, The center of the shield bears the three mystic that is, the rayed lines indicat that light manat Greek letters, Pi, Kappa and Alpha. The first and from behind the achievem nt, thu glorifying it the last letters are slightly smaller than the and all for which it stands. longated K in the center. These three letters have With this explanation of the terminology a mystic meaning which is only revealed to the employed, therefore, the blazonry of the Pi Kappa initiate. They occupy the honor point in the shield Alpha coat-of-arms is stated as shown on th because they are of extreme importance in the previous pages. ritual. The motto ribbon for the Pi Kappa lpha Most fraternities require that the obligation be achievement lies behind and not below th shi ld given under oath of secrecy and the dagger as in most coats-of-arms. Long b fore h raldry palewise or perpendicular evidently is to remind became an hereditary institution th motto the initiate of this portion of his initiation. It constituted the war cry of the clan, or more occupies the middle base and therefore carries the specifically the call of the lord of the manor to the symbolism that it is upon the basis of word given knights. However, when arms were later granted by that the benefits are to be derived. All of this detail the crown to famous and noble families, the motto is shown. was inscribed upon the motto ribbon displayed Within a riveted bordure argent, which is the beneath the shield and ofttimes represented the heraldic terminology for describing the reinforced ambitions or characteristic phrases associated with border or edging of the shield, is shown argent or those particular families. In American college silver. This is to indicate the purity of purpose fraternities the heraldic bearings often carry the wherein lies the strength of this great fraternity. Greek-letter fraternity name. The whole achievement is surmounted by an The border of the shield is embellished with a esquire's helmet. Of all the fighting equipment of representation of rivets which were used to hold the ancient knight, the head protective device of the several laminations of the shield together, thus the esquire has been fittingly chosen to surmount affording greater strength in the protection of the the shield of Pi Kappa Alpha. It stands to ever knight. While such decoration has no official remind the members of gentlemanly conduct heraldic significance, it does carry the idea that the which should ever characterize the actions of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity affords strong pro true fraternity man. Pi Kappa Alpha was founded tection to all those within its bond. upon the ideal of chivalry and this thought of When the fraternity man is once acquainted with gentlemanly behavior and courtesy is very dear to the wealth of tradition which lies behind the the hearts of Pi Kappa Alpha. coat-of-arms of his fraternity, and he becomes Behind the escutcheon and therefore indicative thoroughly conversant with the secret symbolism that it is upon this basis that the fraternity rests, is therein employed, he cannot but live a better life a key and a sword crossed saltierwise. The key, in and be a better man by ofttimes being reminded of common with the open book and the flamed it. By associating it with his personal adornment, Grecian lamp, has always been recognized as a whether it be on a fraternity ring or charm, or as a symbol of learning. It is crossed with a sword gift from a friend, he is reminded of the idealism saltierwise undoubtedly to remind the members of which binds him to his fraternity - a priceless the fact that learning in order to be justified must heritage known only to the chosen few. lend its culture to actions. The sword is grasped by a human hand erased, meaning that only a portion of the human hand is shown. This symbolizes the Postscript: This article i reprinted from the understanding which the fraternity gives to all of October, 1930 issue of the Shield & Diamond. It the actions of its members. The idea that actions author, the late L. G. Balfour, built the Balfour and learning are intimately blended to produce Jewelry company and wa alway inten ely noble action is further enhanced by the joining of intere ted in fraternity affairs. He was a member of the key and sword in base by a silver chain. Sigma Chi Fraternity and died in 1973. Behind the escutcheon is the motto ribbon in the form of a scroll. It is shown fessewise or horizontally and bears the mystic Greek letters Phi S~ARP GLtY.
Artist Randy Hartzog, Gamma Iota (Ol e Miss) , graduated last May and became art director for The Electronic Pavilion in Memphis. He may pen other "Sharp Guy" cartoons for the S&D in the future.
15 \\1ud J)j Kappa -'- \ lpba nJt•ans •o 111(' By 10 famou alumni
Editor's Note: In this Bic enten nial year, many famous Amer \ ican are being asked what their figure in American medicine o r country mea ns to them. Lest we Gen. Louis Wilson the pa t two decade , forget that this i al o the bi Holder of the Congressional ce ntennial of the American Medal of Honor for bravery, Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity offered me Greek letter fraternity, we asked Gen. Loui Wil on, a 1939 the opportunity to develop lasting initiate of Alpha Iota (Mill sap ) friendships among my student col 10 famou Pi ke alumni what the leagues, and to learn leadership in an Fraternity means to them. Each chapter, is Commandant of the academic and cultural environment. man is honored in the Fraternity U.S. Marine Corps. Bicentennial Hi tory: 200 Year After the passage of 35 crowded years, of Freedom & Fraternity, the it is hard to single out any particular Memorial Foundation book highlight of my association with Pi whic h features 200 Pi Kappa Kappa Alpha. Instead, I recall warmly the strong friendship shared by the Alpha alumni who made ignif Pikes, which added a special dimension icant co·ntributions to the to my college days. I believe that this development of our ociety. type of experience makes an essential Gov. A. B. " Happy" Chandler difference in determining whether col A. B. " Happ y" Chandler lege itself is a highlight of one's life, or achieved heights in both politic , merely a l:zurdle to be cleared. as Governor of Kentucky, and Over the years, the ability to look at life as a series of highlights rather professional sports, as Com than a series of hurdles has been one missioner of Baseball . The 1919 of the most treasured legacies I have initiate of Kappa (Transylvania) received {rom Millsaps and from Pi chapter enjoyed a Horatio Alger Kappa Alpha. rise in politics.
Dr. Luther L. Terry I was invited to become a member of The former U.S. Surgeon General the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity by the who i sued the now famous boys who were members of the Kappa chapter at Transylvania College in warning against smoking in 1964 1919. Nearly 57 years have passed was initiated in 1928 by Delta now since I first joined the Fraternity. (Birmingham-Southern) chapter. I have, in my travels around the country and indeed around the world, From the time I was first pledged to Pi Mr. Lance Alworth encountered many Pi Kappa Alpha Kappa Alpha it has been a continuous A premier wide receiver for the brothers and it has been one of the pleasure to me. While I was Surgeon San Diego Chargers and Dallas great experiences of my life. General, membership in nKA was a Cowboys spanning two profes Naturally I treasure my affiliation great asset to me because there were sional football leagues, Brother with Pi Kappa Alpha and am now of many Pikes who were members of the course a Diamond Life Member of this Congress. Alworth was initiated at Alpha fine Fraternity that continues to make My continued interest and pleasure Zeta (Arkansas) chapter in 1959. an outstanding contribution to the also extends onto the campus and into young men who join and who follow the chapter house on frequent It has always been a pleasure to be part of such a great team - Pi Kappa its expressed ideals. I'm sure member occasions. R ecently, I was a visiting ship in the Fraternity has caused me to professor at Mississippi State Univer Alpha - and to be in the bonds of brotherhood. shape a course of conduct. I wish the sity. While there I contacted our chap fellows who are in nK now will learn ter and was promptly invited over to a well the valuable lessons of the nice dinner at the house and was given Fraternity. an opportunity to make a few remarks Dr. Ma lcolm C. Todd to the group. In addi lion, I was pre Currently the immediate past sented with a silver beer mug bearing president of th e American the Fraternity seal, my name, and the date of my visit. The warmth of our Medica l As ociation, Dr . Todd Fraternity is evident in many places was initiated in 1931 by Beta Eta and at all age levels. (lllinoi ) chapter. A national The second is that the Fraternity teaches cooperative problem solving. Young men work together to solve problems, to take into account the other fellow's point of view and to try to reach a solution that provides the greatest good for the greatest number. That is the best definition I know of democracy. Dr. John T. Caldwell The third advantage is learning how Dr. John Tyler Caldwell, a 1929 to work with other people. There are Chemical Corp. and became initiate of Gamma Theta (Missis many studies today seeking to learn president and chairman of the sippi State) chapter, served as what motivates people to do what they do. I believe that a young man's board. chancellor of North Carolina fraternity experience helps provide The lasting friendships made during State University until his rece nt him an answer to that problem. He is retirement. forced to• seek new ways to get along college days have proved to be the with other people. highlight of my Fraternity experience. When I look back on my Gamma Pi Kappa Alpha brothers with whom I Theta experience and try to sort out lived during the college years were "the highlight" of the rich associations scattered everywhere, in Florida, in that chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha, I California, New York and New am hard-pressed. But I have to con Orleans, as well as Missouri, .where I clude that the example of our faculty came from. Yet when I meet up with advisor, Buddy Lucas, in his devotion each of them we are immediately close to us young people as pledges and together again and all the years of members was outstanding. Buddy separation don't seem to amount to Lucas believed in the Fraternity's any time at all. There is something most invigorating and stirring in those ideals. He believed they ought to be I important to us in our growing-up greetings that isn't matched when years. No softie, he was a high Judge Elbert P. Tuttle other acquaintances are encountered. standard man with a strong sense of The 1917 initiate and charter The Pi Kappa Alpha brother of what eve r generation stands apart from loyalty to the college, to the chapter, member of Beta Theta (Cornell) the Fraternity and to the welfare of other men in his affinity and respect. his boys. chapter served as Pi Kappa The young actives are as congenial as Fraternity friendships have a special Alpha's National President for an old alumnus at a Founders' Day quality. Forged in the contex t of eight years from 1930, when th e banquet. A casual meeting with a man group purpose, stated ideals and many position was Grand Prin ceps, to who turns out to be a OKA brother immediately becomes an easy and testing situations, close friendships are 1938. He was the Fraternity's tempered and enriched by being open pleasure These things mean shared. 1954 recipient of the Distin guished Achievement A ward and served many years as Chief Justice of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, fifth district.
I treasure my affiliation with Pi Kappa Alpha because it blessed me with lifelong friendships, one of which led Sen. John J. Sparkman to the meeting of my future and now A 1924 initiate and charter mem long-time wife of 57 years. But the really important thing is, in Sen. J. Strom Thurmond ber of Gamma Alpha (Alabama) a society of mediocre men, you have The senior senator from South chapter, Senator John J. Spark the opportunity to be a hero if you Carolina has be en a farmer, law man was the Democratic have the Fraternity experience. The yer, school teacher, judge, richness of life - just like the war nominee for Vice President with governor and Presidential can Gov. Adlai Stevenson in 1952. hero's medals - comes from per formance above and beyond the call of didate. The 1960 Xi (South duty. SEN. JOHN J. SPARKMAN Carolina) chapter initiate was awarded 18 medals and I believe in the worth of the Frater decorations during the Second nity, not just because I am a member, Mr. Chester M. Brown World War but because I know that the values The former pres.ident of Pi which the Fraternity teaches are values Kappa Alpha's Memorial Foun that last for a lifetime. dation was· initiated in 1928 at Pi Kappa Alpha is a great Fraternity that has ena bled me to make many The first is leadership training. The Alpha Nu (Missouri-Columbia) result of leadership training is frater lasting friendships. It is a worthwhile nity graduates who have become our chapter. He worked hi s way up organization to which all of its mem nation's leaders. the corporate ladder at Allied bers should be proud to belong.
17 "Oh, sure, they're the biggest, wears dress shirts and ties and our biggest asset is our dorm rush but they're not selective. They really looks sharp when we go in the fall . We bombard every take anybody." out rushing - and we act sharp. dorm on campus. We have five to The crying shame about such Wh en freshmen come here to ten guys stationed in each dorm statements often made by school they don't know that and just wait for the sharp fresh mediocre fraternity chapters is most students are grubby; men to come in. It's like picking that it implies " large member t hey're just blind freshmen. apples out of a barrel. ship" and " quality membership" When they see a bunch of guys After that we have a strenuous are mutually exclusive terms; walking around looking and follow-up program. The rush that you can have one but not acting sharp, it really makes an chairman selects a brother who is the other. impression. And it impresses similar to the fellow he's rushing Anyone who has ever worked their parents. and pairs the two of them. That with fraternities is no stranger to Bucky Anderson: Probably way the rushee has someone m the statement. Though likely to the house he can relate to. be uttered by a member of any given fraternity about the campus' largest fraternity (unless How would you like to he's part of it), these words of wisdom are most often heard from an " also-ran" chapter. The rush againsl this erew? members are grasping for excuses for their own rush inadequacies. Naturally, there are some chapters which can pledge qual ity without quantity. They're rare. And, more often, there are chapters which pledge with seeming disregard for quality. However, few chapters ever bec ome great without first becoming large. Fraternity chap ters consistently at or near the top combine great size with dis tinctive quality. Last spring, Director of Chap ter Services Norm Hulcher visited one of the Pi Kappa Alpha chap ters which has consistently pledged quality and quantity, Delta Lambda at Florida State. A . round-table discussion with rush chairman Mike Markowski, SMC . - Bucky Anderson and chapter members Joe Smalley, Jerry Sex ton and Bill Wheatley revealed some interesting points about rush, salesmanship and rushee evaluation. Norm Hulcher: In the past four years, Delta Lambda has pledged 48, 49, 45 and now 56 men, by far the highest at Flori da State in both quantity and quality. How do you manage to pledge these large numbers year From left, roundtable participants in in and year out? clude Bill Wheatley, Jerry · Sexton, Jerry Sexton: I think we're Bucky Anderson, Mike Markowski and the only fraternity at FSU that Joe Smalley. Mike Markowski: But our real as we're concerned it's the future Smalley: We're getting fired edge numbers-wise isn't in the of the Fraternity. I want to be up for the fall right now, because fall - everybody else rushes real proud of this place when I leave we know that we have to do hard in the fall, too. Numbers and when I come back. well. If you don't get the biggest wise we go up every year in Joe Smalley: It's almost a and best pledge class in the fall winter and spring rush. That's tradition to be rush conscious. then you're going to lose your where the other fraternities die At the beginning of every quarter grip on number one. Next fall out. everybody knows that if you we'll come back and have a big Hulcher: How do you keep have a party, it's a rush party. picnic and barbecue - just the the chapter rush conscious year Another thing that helps is plan brothers - and talk about rush, round? ning ahead; we just finished go over what we're going to do. Sexton: I look at it this way. spring rush and already the rush The next day the dorms open up. When I come back here in four chairman is planning the spring Sexton: We always meet for or five years, I don't want some banquet, which, at the end of the breakfast at about 7:00 in the wimp coming to the door saying, year, is another rush function. morning the day the dorms open. "Hi, can I help you?" I want us Plus, we're always teaching the Everybody's there, looking sharp to stay sharp and so do the other younger guys, training them how in their coats and ties, and we guys here. In some chapters to rush. really get fired up, like a pre "rush" is a dirty word, but as far Sexton: A lot of guys look at game warmup. When we· leave rush as a game, like a maneuver. there we know we're going to It makes you feel really good, blow 'em out. like in intramural sports, when Markowski: Now and then, you've got a pledge class of 35 though, we need to remind our super-sharp guys and then you selves that if we don't rush then look at your top competition a we'll end up just like some of year ago and they've got 15 or these other fraternities. It puts us 20 guys, half of whom you in a mood of, "Well, hell, let wouldn't even take in the first these others take all the flies; place. we're going to get the sharp Markowski: One reason that I guys., think our chapter is rush con Hulcher: What is a sharp guy? scious all year long is that we What kind of member do you disregard the traditional meaning want? of the word "rush." Rush in Anderson: There are five cri most fraternities is supposed to teria which the rush committee be a surge at the beginning of goes by. We look for good each quarter during which you physicce appearance, pride in per get all of your pledges. Now the sonal grooming, an attractive reason it is this way in most personality, financial capability fraternities is that they don't and the desire to join what we realize that every function can be perceive to be "the Pike-type of used as a rush party. I used our fraternity." little sister softball game, which H u l c her: Certainly, Delta was not even designated as a rush Lambda wasn't always made up function, to bring over one of of high quality members. How our top rushees. When the did it begin to attract sharp brothers see a guy being brought people? around the house they know he's Markowski: You need the welcome, that he's being rushed. numbers to make the fraternity The problem with rush is the sharp. What you do is get these word "rush" itself. Every body big, big chapters and when the rushes like hell the first two sharp guys see a big group of weeks of the quarter and then men some will pledge up. It takes they say, "Well, rush is over, we a cycle of about five years to just wait till next quarter." make a sharp fraternity; you just Twelve-month recruiting is what can't make it overnight. we do, and that's why we're Hulcher: How do you prepare successful. for rush in the fall?
19 Anderson: We begin preparing of all the variables. The more all during the rush parties. for fall rush, actually, in the control you have over your Sexton: I ~as blown away. latter part of spring. Mike is parties, the more success you'll Hulcher: How do you talk to a working with two guys now from have in rush. rushee? What do you discuss? a local high school. They're Hulcher: This would also Smalley: Let a rushee talk seniors, and he's had them over a eliminate the problem many about himself. Ask him about his couple of times to some of our chapters have of hundreds of background, about high school, events. free-loaders coming through just about how he's getting along in We set up our summer rush for beer. school. Repeat his name over and program. We have a statewide What type of atmosphere do over. A person's name is like rush, in which we designate you try to create for a rush music to his ears. Ask a lot of certain members to be chairmen party? questions; get to know him. of specific areas of the state of Markowski: If you want to Markowski: No doubt about rush, don't have a band. If you Florida. It i.s their responsibility it, knowing a guy's name has have a party that's too good, it's to gather names and send them more to do with it than any not going to be a good rush to Mike, so he can get his master thing. If you're one of three party. If you have too many girls list of people we c,an look at in fraternities going to see a guy it's not going to be a good rush the fall. He'll send out letters and the other two forget his saying we understand you're name and you say, " Hey, Mark, coming t0 Florida State, we hope "We know we're going what's going on, how's your girl you'll have good time, let us a to blow 'em out" friend Judy?" he's going to be help you out if you have any impressed. problems. Markowski: We have a rush party. Because, believe it or not, And when you make a committee here. We get the if there are a bunch of good commitment to a rushee, when names of the gliys. We don't let looking women running around, you invite him over, look him in the brothers go out and say, the brothers will have too many the eye, shake his hand, say, "I'll "Hey, why don't you come over drinks and forget the rushees. expect you at the house, I'll pick to the party and join up?" You want to have one girl for you up at 7 :30, I'll be right back Because you can't tell anybody every four brothers, and it helps over." Shaking his hand is very to "come to the party because if she's a little sister; a trained important. It's like finalizing a we want you to be a Pike." We little sister can be a great rusher. contract. have a committee which does Band parties are no-go for Smalley: We always tell them this work. You've got to sell rush, really. Fraternities that go we'll pick them up. We usually these rushees. out for rush and have bands the don't rely on them to get there H u l c her: What are Delta first seven nights don't do any themselves, because they'll wan Lambda's rush parties like? thing; it's too loud, there's no der off. Other fraternities will Markowski: The only kind of one-on-one rush, everybody's come over. They may stop off at• rush party to have is a controlled dancing - you can't talk to a the other houses because they're rush party. Unfortunately, we rushee when he's dancing all closer and they may pledge up had several parties this fall where. night. over there. people from the public came Also, you've got to be careful Hulcher: What's your basic ~wer, we didn't know their the first of the year not to have sales pitch? names. date parties. These guys are new Markowski: We used to use real W~at helped us out a lot this on campus and they're insecure hard sell. But, if the guy's sharp spring was the apartment party, with the girls; they don't have - real sharp -you don't want to where we can get the rushees out their feet on the ground yet. pressure him at all. If he's mar - we P!ck them up ourselves They'll just skip the date party ginal, put the harder sell on him. take them to the apartment - and go over to another house and He'll pledge nine times out of they can't leave. They don't just drink beer all night. ten. come over to the house; no I had a problem this year with Smalley: The rush chairman body's going to come walking some of the guys on the rush com can't talk to all of them, so we'll into a great big fraternity house mittee getting during rush parties get a few guys who are real by themselves, they just won't so I had to make it a rule experienced in rush, who can sit do it. So, you have to h!3-ve a that no rush committee members down and talk to a rushee. A controlled rush party, just like a could drink until after the party. party can be a real hectic atmo controlled experiment in psy I remember this fall, a lot of the sphere, and it's a big decision·, so chology. You've got to take care brothers didn't drink anything at we'll get a guy who knows the Fraternity and will take a guy Hulcher: How do you decide wonders if he's going to do a outside and sit down and talk. you want to pledge a man? Is it good job or not. He'll honestly answer questions unanimous chapter consent? Markowski: That's right, and put the rushee's mind at rest. Markowski: No! It's the rush because when you first get this When he's really thinking committee. We have a special job of rush chairman it's a positively about the Fraternity rush committee that is picked lonely, lonely world out there. and is relaxed, then you get him by the chairman - usually the There were many nights that to answer a series of questions sharpest guys in the chapter, the nobody in the chapter house "yes." leaders, the guys who have knows about that I stomped up "Do you like our fraternity?" been around for a long time. and down dormitory halls until I "Have you met a lot of the The rush chairman, though, has finally started getting pledges. guys?" the supreme authority, the final Every pledge I got, people "Yes." say-so, but we've never had a started waking up, I got people Get him to say "yes" rush chairman who's run away helping me, and it started to repeatedly. and pledged peopl~ who would've snowball and it snowballed all "Well, would you like to join been blackballed. through the rest of the year. our fraternity?" Nod your head. Smalley: Of course, if the Smalley: The chapter should "Yes." You've got him. never pick a new rush chairman Markowski: Never pose that for fall quarter. When he comes big question "Do you want to "If we see a guy we like, into the fall, he's got to be pledge?" Don't even say the we'll just grab him" experienc~d. word "pledge" because it is a Markowski: Our rush chair word they do not know and you man is picked at the beginning of cannot explain to them. Also, winter quarter and his term goes don't rush · two best friends to guy's smart, he'll get a lot of for a year. gether. That's a no-no because opinions. If you ask a lot of Hulcher: Briefly, summarize they have too much play on each brothers their opmwns they your concept of rush. other. Get one of them first and appreciate that. It makes them Smalley: Be rush conscious. you'll pull the other one in. feel involved and it sort of re Think about rush, not just during There was a guy this spring inforces their energies to rush. the first two weeks of the quar who wanted to wait until fall. I Markowski: You can't just go ter. When you've got an event, said, "Well, Jim, listen, you run in there and have three guys say look around for guys you don't track, don't you?" He goes, we want these 30 people and no know, go up to them, shake their "Yes, I do." I say, "You were one else in the chapter knows hands. Be sure you meet and just out running, weren't you?" what's going on. know all the rushees, because if He says, "Yes, I was out running Smalley: There is an ad all the brothers do that you can't alone." And I said, "Well, you vantage, I think, to having a rush go wrong. know that if you were in our chairman with that kind of Sexton.' Dress sharp and look Fraternity you could run for us power, because a lot of chapters sharp. Try to put your best foot right now - you could run for will see a guy, they'll have him forward. Don't go running points - in intramurals." He over, then they'll wait until Sun around in overalls. says, "Yeah, that's right! I saw day or Monday night to discuss Anderson: Consider rush as some Pikes out running the track him in chapter, and by that time salesmanship. You've got a this afternoon." he's gone. If we see a guy we product, you've got to sell your I was at his apartment and I like, we'll grab him. product; know what it is, believe looked around and said; ;'It's just Hulcher: We've made a lot of in what it is, make the other dead over here; you could fall in references to the rush chairman, person feel that way. a rut. If you were a Pike you who somebody said is the most could come over to the house important man in this chapter. and play basketball. You like to Tell me a little bit about what play basketball, don't you?" I it's like to be rush chairman here. nodded my head yes and he said Anderson: Whenever a new "Yes." "You could eat over at rush chairman takes hold, it's the house. Do you cook good?" going to take him at least a Of course not. "I bet you eat out month or so to get the con~ all the time." On those questions fidence of the rest of the chap I got him to the house and we ter, because as soon as he takes pledged him over dinner. over the rest of the chapter
21 etion Pi Kappa Alpha's 1975-76 Consultants
Dave Dyson 'l' (Auburn) 1972 Chapter Consultant Barry Harris tl8 (Arkansas State) 1974 Being affiliated with Pi Kappa Alpha Chapter Consultant for the past five years has proved to be one of the most positive influences in As a chapter consultant I consider my my life. I have become convinced that job as one of the most important on membership in this fraternity is an the staff. If I didn't feel that way I opportunity in itself; anyone who couldn't totally dedicate myself to takes advantage of what it has to offer that job. will be provided with what it takes to I expect many things of myself; be successful. likewise, I expect certain qualities in I joined the staff following my all my chapters and especially in the December 1975 graduation from officers of those chapters. The burning Auburn University because I consider desire to make Pi Kappa Alpha num it an honor working with high caliber Mitch Colburn ber one is the most important of those people who are on the national staff. rr (Mississippi) 1973 qualities. If an individual doesn't feel Secondly, my belief in the Fraternity Chapter Consultant that way he is simply wearing the is so strong that I hope to be able to wrong colors. promote it wherever I go. During the 1960's, a turbulent period After traveling last spring, I am in America's history, the fraternity truly excited about where the Frater system suffered a great deal. nity is going. This year I will be Fortunately the seventies brought a working on expansion and special rush return to the traditional values and the projects in addition to my regular resurgence of the college fraternity. Pi consultant duties. To me, working Kappa Alpha has been unique in establishing programs and services for its chapters - services that not only survived the sixties but were in many ways responsible for the resurgence of the college fraternity system. Basically, I view the Fraternity as opportunity. It has been said countless In my travels next year I view times that there is something for myself as a body of knowledge to be everyone in the chapter -and there is. tapped by every chapter and every Pi Kappa Alpha on the local level member. I am not the fabled "man offers the chance for leadership, from National here to check up on us" management and social interaction. but the "man from National who came Individual chapters must strive to pro to help our chapter achieve its goals." with chapters is more than a job; it's a mote programs which cover a variety My sole purpose upon visiting a chap personal commitment. It excites me of interests ranging from social to ter is to help it in any way possible. when we compete with the other athletics to religious to scholastic. The I was an independent on my college national fraternities for an expansion full development of the members is campus for two years, so I've exper berth and win. Likewise, I love to see a the primary function of a chapter. ienced the difference that OKA can chapter collectively competing and It will be my responsibility to make in a person. I know that the winning, whether it is in sports or present the various programs and Fraternity has helped me in in rush. services that the Memorial Head numerable ways and now I have the I am a firm believer in the old quarters offers to the undergraduate opportunity to return the favor. maxim, an organization is only as good chapters and insure their success. My most dominant personality trait as the individuals in it. Similarly, the Admittedly it will be a challenging - dedication to purpose - will be a Fraternity on a national level is only as year for myself and the other con great tool to me in my travels. My good as the whole of its chapters. Each sultants, but what better way is there purpose next year will be for every chapter, every brother, has an obli to invest a year than to assist in the chapter that I visit to improve. If every gation to those who have gone before growth and strengthening of Pi Kappa chapter doesn't improve in some to maintain or establish a standard of~ Alpha? aspect, I've failed. I hate to fail. excellence. Jerry Askew Clint Bellows 1' (North Carolina) 1973 .:::lX (Nebraska-Omaha) 1972 Chapter Consultant Chapter Consultant
Often, it is difficult for fraternities to It is my firm belief t hat membership in justify their existence on college Pi Kappa Alpha can have a profound campuses to faculty and adminis influence on the life of almost any tration_ The problem arises because of college man who has a good grasp on certain stigma and misconceptions that what he would like to do with his life many administrators link to the term after school. Today's young man is an "social fraternity." The sad fact is, in active participant in what is going on. many cases, fraternities limit their He is a joiner and he gets involved_ He existence to partying or other "social " knows the real value of true friendship Chari ie Barnes events which some find difficult to and association with a successful group justify in an academic community. of people. Within nKA it's possi ble for .:::. 1\ (Florida State) 1965 Due to the nature of our Fraternity him to develop and become whatever Senior Recruiting Consultant and membership, social events are and he wants to be. My personal experience tells me I pledged n KA for the wrong reason. that the limits of what is possible in That's not unusual - I think most men attaining personal potential are set join fraternities for one reason and end only by the man himself_ There are up staying for another. I was a l,egacy. few opportunities today for college My uncle was, and still is, my chapter's age. men to get ,on-the-job training for faculty advisor. Recent studies show their personal and professional lives that most men join because a partic after grp.duation. Fraternities are one ular fraternity is "the best group they of the best opportunities to learn the can find and they have the most skills of successful living, and Pi Kappa friends there_" So, just being a sharp Alpha by any standard is one of the chapter isn't enough. Neither is just top four college fraternities in exis being friends. It takes both to attract tence today. the top new men to our ranks. In looking at the quality of people My job is rush. Teaching chapters should be an integral part of our produced by this Fraternity, it is how to attract large numbers of qual programming. However, there are ity men is of vital importance to the other equally worthwhile aspects of an Fraternity. I want key rushees to see overall program which should be OKA as "the best group they can implemented alo.ng with the "social" find" on every campus: My confidence events. When put into effect, these that we can achieve that goal is programs would go far in enhancing boosted by the knowledge that our the image of the Fraternity. Headquarters staff is li terally second As a consultant, I feel that I have to none. two major functions. The first is to act My professional background in as a resource person to the chapters. In marketing and advertising, plus four this way I can make the chapters more and a half years as rush chairman at aware of the ways in which they can Florida State, have given me the skills improve their existing programs. By I need. My motivation - a deep love improving our individual chapters, we for the Fraternity - is something I improve the overall image of frater obvious that the results of their never could have learned in a college nities as a whole. Secondly, I feel that success are not coincidental with their classroom. I think that the experiences it is important for me, as a national association with n KA. I am proud to they had as collegiate OKA 's are the representative, to serve in a public say that OKA was the major moti reason so many of America's most relations capacity when dealing with vating factor in my involvement while successful men continue to give much college administrators and the general in school. My closest friends were, and time and support to this Fraternity. It public_ It is very important to the are nKA's_ Through my chapter, I was also accounts for the exceptional qual Fraternity that I leave a good able to do things which I otherwise ity of the young men who give a year impression with everyone with whom I could not have done. Because of this, I to travel as chapter consultants for come in contact. learned to take the importance of nKA. These positive collegiate exper I am really looking forward to friendship pretty seriously. iences are increased when our chapters getting on the road and meeting the "The development of friendship on are strong; and strength means both challenges that the undergraduates a firmer and more lasting basis" is an size and quality of membership. have in store. objective central to the real purpose of The best thing I can do for the nKA as I view it. Because we some Fraternity is to give chapters the skills times have a tendency to lose sight of they need to accomplish what they our primary basis for existence, I think have vowed to do in the Ritual. By it is important to remember that we "rushing to win," instead of merely were founded as a fraternity because " rushing to fill the house" or " rushing of the close friendship of six men. We to replace the seniors," Pi Kappa will continue to be successful only to Alpha will maintain and increase the the degree with which we adhere to glory that has been part of our the principles of our founding. heritage for over a century.
23 The Dream Girl we'll always ador(• By Larry Schmidt and Mike Fletcher
It wouldn't be surprising if Pi Kappa Alpha national President Jerry Reel and program enter tainer Mary Jane Collins exchanged more than just occasional glances at the national President's Banquet August 9. The two have had a friendship dating back to the mid-1950's when Reel was in his first collegiate year at Tulane University and affiliated with Eta chapter. At the time, Miss Collins was the headline performer at Pat O'Brien's, a famous lounge on Bourbon Street and·a New Orleans landmark. Miss Collins' "special" relationship with Pi Kappa Alpha dates even further back, to the late 1940's, when she became acquainted with the Fraternity while performing at Pat O'Brien's. "The boys from Tulane used to sit behind me when I played," she recalls. "It just so happened that one of these boys was a Pike and he started bringing in his fraternity brothers. It got so that every time I would play, they would give me a standing ovation." "After I made that initial contact with the Pikes in 1948 they just sort of handed me down from one year to the next. They were very special to me so when rush week came around at Tulane, I would At 58, she is playing the Memphis Holiday Inn go play for their parties. circuit in her thirty-first year as a professional. "I have always enjoyed young people so I made Music in the beginning was only a hobby that later it a part of my act to learn as many of the college turned into a devoted profession. Born in Texas fight songs as I could," Miss Collins says. and growing up in the Midwest, Mary Jane began As her first year progressed at O'Brien's, Mary playing piano in high school. Jane became more and more involved with Eta The road to New Orleans from the Midwest chapter. "I found out later that they had a thing came after a travelling show she was on went broke going for me. Since the chapter .didn't have a house in Paris, Illinois. After borrowing two cents for a mother at the time I would go over and perform as stamp to write her worried mother that "every chairman of the entertainment committee, the thing is fine," she went to the police station and clean-up committee and chaperone as well when told the red-nosed desk sergeant, "I'm a big, strong they would bring their dates over." girl, and I'll do any kind of work as long as it's The entertainer admits that "my involvement honest. Can you get me a job?" fulfilled a void in my life when I was at Pat The next day Collins was slinging hash in a O'Brien's:' roadside beanery. Well, that's show business, but In April of 1955, Eta's "house mother" became luckily Mary Jane did not live happily ever after in their lifetime "Dream Girl." When presented her the Paris ptomaine palace. She kept knocking on pin on an early spring evening, she turned to the every stage door and finally, in the night spots of assembled brothers and their dates and said, "I love New Orleans' French Quarter, where jazz music you, everyone." On every succeeding year until she first found itself, Mary Jane discovered her greatest left New Orleans, the brothers would always come asset as an entertainer. She found that she could down after the ball and present her a corsage, make people forget their troubles and sing. Folks symbolic of their affection. whose voices are so bad they are scared to hum in a Mary Jane Collins' life has taken many turns as shower find themselves singing when they are she continued pursuing the career she loves, under the dual spell of Mary Jane's piano and playing the piano and making people happy. personality. ALUMNI Compiled and edited by Golconda Corporation in Chicago. He Operations. (8807 Wolverton Rd. , Renee Pierucci, Copy Editor is involved in spectator sports and Baltimore, Md. 21234) musical activities. (242 Gillick Park Ridge, lll. 60068) ' Initiation dates Initiation dates Wirt T. Harvey (Millsaps) is a mechan 1940 to 1949 ical engineer with interest in traveling 1900 to 1929 and woodworking. (5901 Calle del J. E. Calloway (Millsaps) is a physician Norte, Phoenix, Az. 85018) Maj. Gen. Robert E. Blount {Millsaps) and stays very active in the Rotary Club. He is also a fellow of the Royal is a professor of medicine and Dean George T. Lewis (Tennessee) recently Emeritus of the University of Missis· Society of Health of Great Britain and formed a new law firm in Memphis is an area consultant for rehabilitation sippi Medical School in Jackson. Tennessee, Lewis, McKee & Hall: Brother Blount served 35 years as a of the blind. (313 N. Court Ave., Brother Lewis is active in various Louisville, Ms. 39339) ~areer Army physician in the Philip· philanthropic and community activ mes, Japan and Germany. (241 Ridge ities and has served Pi Kappa Alpha in Dr., Jackson, Ms. 39216) David H. Donald (Millsaps) received an recent years as a Memorial Foundation honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Trustee. His son, Buck, was recently Le~ters from Millsaps College during J. H. Cone, Jr. (Auburn) has been SMC of PiKA's Zeta chapter at Ten retired for two years. He and his wife spnng commencement ceremonies. He nessee. (Suite 1030, 100 N. Main holds a Ph.D. in history and teaches at have been traveling through the United Bldg., Memphis, Tn. 38103) States, Canada, Mexico, Caribbean and Harvard University. Brother Donald's parts of Europe. He left this past publications include Lincoln's Hern Whitworth C. McCay (Millsaps) is don, A Rebel's Collection, FJiuided We February for the "Spirit of 76 Tour" safety director for the Longhorn Army to the Holy Land with Pat Boone as Fought, Inside Lincoln's Cabinet and Ammunition Plant in Marshall, Texas. the Pulitzer Prize winning Charles tour director. (620 Peachtree St., N.E., He is a member of the Lions Club, the Apt. 1911, Atlanta, Ga. 30308) Sumner and the Coming of the Civil Methodist Church and enjoys fishing War (1863-1867). (Box 158, Lincoln and gardening in his spare time. (4103 Center, Ma. 10773) Henry G. Flowers (Millsaps) is a law Redwood Trail, Marshall, Tx. 75670) yer and president of the Credit Bureau of Jackson, Mississippi. Brother Thomas Fidance (Carnegie-Mellon) is a partner in the architect firm of Way Flowers is former president of the mon and Fidance in Wilmington, Dela Jackson PiKA Alumni Association and ware. One of his favorite pasttimes is he enjoys fishing and boating in his stamp collecting. (16 Stone Hill Rd. leisure time. (5338 Briarfield Rd., Wilmington, De. 19803) ' Jackson, Ms. 39211) Dale H. Janssen (Millsaps) is traffic William B. Gates (Millsaps) is now manager for Soy Cot Sales, Inc., a sales retired and Dean Emeritus of the agency for soybean products and graduate school at Texas Tech Univer cottonseed oil mills, domestic and sity. (3259 West Ashby Place, San export. Brother Janssen is a block Antonio, Tx. 78228) McCay Annett captain for the Republican Party and serves as an elder in the Presbyterian Ulysses S. Gordon (Southwestern-at Edward B. Annett, Jr. (Lehigh) is a Church in Mount Prospect, lllinois. Memphis) is pastor of Archer Presby partner in the manufacturers' repre (709 S. Candota, Mt. Prospect, lll. terian Church in Gainesville, Florida. sentative firm of Beedle Equipment 60056) (%Archer Presbyterian Church, Gaines Company in Cincinnati. He is a ville, Fla. 32601) registered professional engineer in Chester Pomeroy (Missouri-Rolla) is a Pennsylvania, a senior member of the market research specialist for DuPont. Herbert C. Klippen (Minnesota) was Instrument Society of America and a An active member in the Masons, he is recently elected national President of member of the Institute of Electrical a past Potentate of his Nur Temple the Associated General Contractors of and Electronic Engineers. (6705 and First Vice President of the Mid America. (4540 Rondon Rd., Duluth, Wyman Lane, Cincinnati, Ohio 45234) Atlantic Shrine Association. Other Mn. 55804) community activities include president Edwin B. Scruggs (Missouri-Columbia) of his civic association and church Robert W. Mueller (Minnesota) has elder. Chester has also received many retired as vice president and director established E. B. Scruggs Company of Phoenix in January of 1975. They military decorations. (15 N. Cliffe Dr., of Minnesota Mining and Manufac Wilmington, De. 19803) turing. {1314 1st National Bank Bldg., represent the largest manufacturers of St. Paul, Mn. 55101) electrical and mechanical engineered products to electric utilities and indus Lewis H. Reid (Cincinnatti and Le trial companies in the Southwest. high) is a senior metallurgical engineer Initiation dates (4909 E. Pinchot, Phoenix, Ariz. with Sub Oil Company at Marcus 1930 to 1939 85018) Hook, Pennsylvania. Lew enjoys camping and outdoor living and has Hugh P. Boswell, Jr. (Millsaps) is a Lucian G. Vorpahl (Minnesota) has spent some long vacations all around physician specializing in pathology in recently retired from a position with the U.S. and Canada. He served as Booneville, Mississippi. He is a member Union Oil Company. (2609 27th president of the Rotary Club and is of the Rotary Club and is involved in Avenue, N .E., Minneapolis, Mn. also a long-time member of his com amateur radio and photography activ 55418) munity's Municipal Sewer Authority. ities. (Box 654, Booneville, Ms. (520 Veronica Rd., West Chester, Pa. 38829) R. Carter Wells (Lehigh) has been with 19380) the Social Security Administration for Richard J. Dorman (Millsaps) is Mar five years now and is currently direc Arthur L. Simmers, Jr. (Penn State) ket Manager for the Rego Division of tor of the division of EDP Network was recently named manager of design engineering for Copeland Systems. (15207 Michigan Ave., Villa Park, D.
25 Otis A. Singletary, Jr. (Millsaps) re William T. Jeanes (Millsaps) is Group ceived an Honorary Doctor of Di vinity Creative Director for the Campbell Degree from Millsaps Coll ege at their Ewald Advertising Company in Detroit commencement exercises last May. and is assigned to the Goodyear The former head of the Job Corps is accounts. Brother Jeanes is a member currently President of the University of the National Arts Club and is of Kentucky. (Maxwell Place, Univ. of Director of the American Racing Press Kentucky, Lexington, Ky. 40506) Association. (620 Neff Rd., Grosse Poin te, Mi. 48230) Bill Thomson (Delaware) is engaged in the sale of sc ientific glassw are through Robert E. Markland (Cincinnati) has the Thomson Instrument Company been promoted to Professor of Randolph Tompsett which he owns. His main interest is Management Science at the University track and field as evi denced by his of Missouri-St. Louis, where he Initiation dates long se rvice as an AAU coach and a received the AMOCO Foundation technique coach to the U.S. Olympic Excellence in Teaching Award last 1960 to 1969 Committee. His daughter, Carol, plans year. (7585 Warner Ave., Richmond to be a contender in the Games at Heights, Mo. 63117) Richard L. Tompsett (Nebraska Montreal. (400 Vassar Dr. , Newark, Omaha) has re.cently been named De. 19711) John D. McEachin (Millsaps) is a Eastern Nebraska/Southwester Iowa pediatrician and serves as chairman of general agent for National Life Insur Robert E. Wardlow (Arkansas) is the the Mississippi chapter of the Amer ance Company of Vermont. Rich has Vi ce Presi dent in Charge of Marketing ican Aca demy of Pediatrics. He is a been active in numerous charity, civic for Dolgin 's Wholesale Company in past presi dent of the Millsaps Alumni and ·community organizations as well Kansas City. A member of Blue Key, Association and is actively involved in as Pi Kappa Alpha, and he and his wife Scabbard and Blade and various other the Methodist Church. (4820 Country Patricia have two children. (6437 honoraries while in sc hool, Brother Club Dr., Meridian, Ms. 39301) Glenwood Rd. , Omaha, Neb. 68132) Wardlow is married to the former Diann Dykes. (9020 Overlook Dr., Wayland M. Mead (Cornell) has been Peter M. Allan (Florida) is manager of Overland Park, Ks. 66207) elected vice presi dent and general one of Austria's largest construction counsel of American International companies. He extends an invitation to Initiation dates Group, Inc. in New York City, a all brothers who may be in his area on holding company whose member business or vacation to let him know. 1950 to 1959 insurance companies conduct business (9710 Feistritz/45, Austria, Europe) in the U.S., Canada and more than 135 Frank Cashell (Delaware) holds a other countries and jurisdictions. (22 Gary R. Anderson (Lehigh) is a tax position in the Treasurer's Auditing Lucille Ct., Massapequa, N.Y. 11758) accountant with Peat, Marwick, Department of the E.I. DuPont Corpo Mitchell & Co. in Baltimore. He ration. He also serves on the advisory Robert W. Nicolai (New Mexico) is a received his CPA in Maryland in 1969 board of the accounting department at sales engineer with Napko Corporation and graduated from the University of the Un iversity of Delaware and takes of California, with trade sales responsi Maryland Law School in 1972. He is part in speaking engagements for the bility for Washington, Alaska, north married to the former Barbara Kresh American Management Association. west Idaho, southwest Montana and tool. (4803 Roland Ave., Baltimore, (18 Dansfield Dr. , Wilmington, De. British Columbia, Canada. Brother Md . 21210) 19803) Nicolai is a past president of PiKA's Beta Delta Alumni Association and he Harold M. Arkin (West Virginia) is James Cowan (Delaware) is employed and his wife and their two children president of A TT A Enterprises, Inc., with the City of Vineland's Chief reside in Redmond, Washington. owner of Golden Skillet franchise for Engineer in New Jersey. (RD 3, Sher (13703 N.E. 73rd Place, Redmond, southwest Florida, and serves as a man Ave ., Vineland, NJ 08360) Wash. 98052) marketing consultant for Pizza-Go, Inc. and Franklin Wholesale. (2623 J:tichard Passwater (Delaware) recently S.E. 18th Ave., Cape Coral, Fla. John L. Green, Jr. (Millsaps) has com ~ published a book entitled Super 33904) pleted his work with Rensselaer Poly nutrition: Megavitamin Revolution. technic Institute in New York. He is Brother Passwater is a noted bio J. Michael Blackford (Wayne State) is now Executive Vice President at the chemist for his research in heart employed with Xerox Corporation in University of Miami. (%Univ. of disease, cancer, old age and the role of Rochester, New York, as a Senior Miami, Ashe Bldg., Coral Gables, Fla. vitamins in health. The book deals Programming Specialist. He was 33124) with his new program of vitamin recently awarded a certificate in data therapy. (529 Southview Ave., Silver processing by the Institute for the Spring, Md. 20904) Certification of Computer Profes 0. Laird Huntsman (Lehigh) has sionals. (45 Village Trail, Hongoye joined System Control, Inc. in Palo Falls, N.Y. 14472) Alto as program manager for special William H. Thorpe (Penn State) is the programs. The company designs com father of four active children, all avid Holland C. Blades, Jr. (Millsaps) is plex computer controlled systems. He Penn State fans. He is a partner in Associate Professor of Marketing at and his wife have two daughters and Tayler & Anderson Towing and Texas Women's University in Denton. are residing in Cupertino, California. Lighterage Co. , a tugboat firm. (400 Brother Blades is a member of the (22333 Bah! St., Cupertino, Cal. Foulke Lane, Springfield, Pa. 19064) Fort Worth Sales and Marketing 95014) Association and is interested in Rev. David J. Randolph (Delaware), astronomy. (1904 Cornell Lane, Den Bart 0. Iddins (Tennessee) was Pastor of Christ Church in New York ton, Tx. 76201) recently elected president of the City, has been elected to a four-year Shrine Directors Association of North term on the board of trustees of Drew Lindsay C. Blanton, Jr. (Hampden America. He is the first Tennesseean to University in Madison, New Jersey. Sydney) recently returned from a serve in the post. (Route 2, Loudon, (No. 19A, 254 E. 68th St., New York, Westpac cruise on the U.S.S. Kitty Tn. 37774) N.Y. 10021) hawk with Helantisubron Eight and was promoted to Lieutenant and School in South Carolina. He is also Paul Davidson (Delaware), former augmented into the regular Navy. He pres~d ent of the Greenville Jaycees, SMC of PiKA's Delta Eta chapter, and his wife and son reside in Chulla president of Upper Piedmont South serves as an advisor to the Old Day in Vista, California. (588 Mariposa St., Carolina Chapter of Western Carolina New Castle Committee. He is currently Chulla Vista, Cal. 92011) University Alumni Association, a employed by the DuPont Company director of the Greater Greenville and works at the Experimental Don Blythe (Millsaps) has completed Chamber of Commerce and a member Station. (302 S. Booth Dr., New his residency at the University of of the executive committee of the Miss Castle, De. 19720) Chicago Medical Center and is cur South Carolina Pageant. (416 Confed rently and instructor of emergency erate Circle, Taylors, S.C. 29687) medicine at the University of Cali Daniel G. Davis (California State-San fornia at Davis. (Section of Emergency Jose) was recently promoted to Dis Jeffrey R. Clark (San Diego State) is a trict Sales Manager of Allergan Phar Medicine, SMC-UCD, 2315 Stockton maceuticals. His district includes Blvd., Sacramento, Cal.) production manager with Fiber Dyne, Inc. in Sun Valley, California. (16809 northern California, Oregon and Washington. Brother Davis is married John C. Bodey (Cincinnati) is Simonds St., Granada Hills , Cal. 91344) to the former Susan Sears and they employed by the Neff Athletic Let recently became parents of a baby girl, tering Company of Greenville, Ohio, as Shannon Keely Davis. (1611 Belem a sales representative. He resides in Dr. Thomas R. Clark (Wayne State) Ct., San Ramon, Cal. 94583) Mishawaka, Indiana, with his wife and has been invited to speak on sexuality two children. (56211 Andrea Ct., and represent the U.S. at the 21st Mishawaka, Ind. 46544) International Congress of Psychology Dennis DeSirey (Iowa) was recently to be held in Paris, France. Con promote d to Senior Systems Analyst William S. Borchers (Northwestern) currently he has been asked to give a with 3M Company. He is resp,onsible received his Juris Doctor degree cum recital/concert on the magnificent pipe for marketing, forecasting and distri laude from the University of Minne organ of Notre Dame Cathedral, which bution modeling. (6048 N. 51st Street, sota Law School in June of 1975. He will be attended by over 10,000 Oakdale, Mn. 55109) is presently associated with the law people and broadcast throughout firm of Thompson, Hessian, Fletcher, France and Western Europe. Dr. Clark Vicent DiLeonardo, Jr. (Delaware) McKasy & Soderberg, P.A. in Min continues to publish liberally on recently accepted a position with Leon neapolis. Brother Borchers married the sexuality and has appeared on several Weiner and Associates, Inc. as a cost former Joan Erickson in November of national TV programs. (26300 West accountant. He is also an active mem 1975. (8201 Stanley Rd., Blooming phal Dr., Apt. 103, Dearborn Heights, ber of the Army Reserve in which he ton, Mn. 55437) Mi . 48127) holds the rank of captain. He and his wife Dale have one son, Vincent. (3 Bruce Bott (Lehigh) is president of C. David Clauss (Ohio State) is now Darby Rd., Newark, De .) Advanced Digital Data, a computer engaged in the private practice of law sales company in Flanders, New in Louisville, Kentucky. Brother Larry J. Duckworth (Mississippi State) Jersey. Brother Bruce earned his Clauss is a 1973 graduate of the is employment manager for the Uni masters in C.E. at Lehigh and worked .University of Louisville School of versity of Mississippi Medical Center, for General · Dynamics and General Law . (1111 Abbeywood Rd., Louis the third largest employer in Missis Electric. He started his company in ville, Ky. 40222) sippi. (737 Woodbury Rd ., Jackson, 1973 and currently has five employees Ms. 39206) and bright prospects for the future. Jack S. Clemens (Miami of Ohio) is a (20 Ramar St., Flanders, N.J. 07836) research and development group leader Richard R. Ellington (Mississippi for Franklin Chemical Industries in State) is Assistant County Attorney Dan 0. Bowlin (Illinois and Murray Columbus, Ohio. (2280 Fitzroy Place for Palm Beach County, Florida. (401 State), a general dentist, is now serving South, Columbus, Ohio 43224) Executive Center Dr., Apt. G-202, in the U.S. Army as the Chief of West Palm Beach, F1a. 33401) Restorative Dentistry at General Richard W. Collins (Wayne State) is Leonard Army Hospital in Fort currently employed as City Planner lll James R. Ewalt (Miami) and his wife Leonard Wood, Missouri. (105 S. for the City of Livonia, Michigan. Marjorie recently became the proud McKinley, Mounds, lll. 62964) Brother Collins formerly spent 31h parents of a baby girl. (638 Paxson years as city planner in Gainesville, Ave., Mercerville, N.J. 08619) Cortland P. Brown (Linfield) recently Florida. He is married and the father became Corporate Vice President of of two children. (29584 Jacquelyn, William S. Ezelle (Millsaps) is Assistant Glendale Agency Inc., one of Denver's Livonia, Mi. 48154) Manager for the Credit Department for largest insurance brokerage firms. Deposit Guaranty National Bank in (2450 Garland St., Lakewood, Colo. Lt. John E. Comer, Jr. (Wittenberg) is Jackson, Mississippi. He is also 80215) a pilot with the U.S. Air Force. He is manager of his church softball team, a married and the father of two chil player on the bank softball team and is John H. Carstens (Nebraska-Omaha) is dren. (46 Stull, Kincheloe AFB, Mi. active in the Mississippi region of the Director of Human Resources for 49788) Sports Car Club of America. (3203 CAPP Homes North Central Region in Downing St., Jackson, Ms. 39216) Minneapolis, Minnesota. (16290 No. Hillcrest Ct., Eden Prairie, Mn. 55343) Philip D. Cox (Alabama and Rich mond) is employed as a special agent James B. Faircloth, lll (North Caro Don Caruth (Concord) was recently with the U.S. Secret Service in lina) recently became transit manager named Executive Director of the West Washington, D.C. (8332 Axbridge for the city of Battle Creek, Michigan. Virginia Career College in Charleston, Court, Springfield, Va. 22151) (12 S. Broad St., Battle Creek, Mich. West Virginia. Don was the former 49017) director of admissions for McLains Malcolm S. Curtis, Jr. (Arizona State) West Virginia Career College in Blue recently accepted a position as Plan Marcellus Gabryelski (South Carolina) field. ning Coordinator for Continental Oil has just completed his third year as Company's planning and development freshman line coach at Princeton James F. Causby (Western Carolina) department. (122 Litchfield Lane, University. (20 N. 5th Ave. , Marville, serves as principal of Greenville Middle Houston, Tx. 77024) N.Y. 08835)
27 John Garland (Oregon State) is serving gmta. (11761 S. Briarpatch Dr. , Mid John E. Lemen (Nebraska-Omaha) is as Timber Harvesting Extension lo thian, Va. 23113) an account representative for Motorola Specialist in the Forest Engineering Communications and Electronics, Inc. Dept. of Oregon State and he also Mark F. Janusch (Wayne State) He is responsible for communications serves OKA as Beta Nu 's Chapter recently accepted a posi tion with Ford systems sales to state and local govern Advisor. (4020 N.E. Pin Oak, Cor Motor Company 's international auto ment accounts in southwestern Iowa. vallis, Ore. 97330) motive operations as a senior product (P.O. Box 269, Griswold, Iowa 51535) design engineer in the overseas product Marty Goldfine (Pennsylvania) is Vice engineering office. (14014 Grand Kenton F. Machina (Valparaiso) was Preside n t of Freeholcl Electric mont, Detroit, Mi . 48227) recently promoted to associate pro Company in Freehold, N-. .v Jersey. fessor at lllinois State University. (131 Juniper Dr., Freehold, N.J . Bruce Jones (Delaware) was recently (327-A Glenn Ave. , Normal, Ill. 07728) promoted to the· position of Chief 61761) Plant Chemist at Mannington Mills in Bill Graham (Millsaps) has received a New Jersey. Brother Jones also serves Richard Mack McCaslin (Western Caro law degree from the University of as chairman of the building committee lina) is production manager for Texfli Mississippi Law School and is prac for the Christiana Fire Company. (119 Industries, producers of polyester fila ticing in Yazoo City, Mississippi. (419 Woodshade Dr., Newark, De . 19702) ment yarn. He and his wife Sandra E. Madison, Yazoo City, Ms. 39194) have two sons. (930 Amity Rd., Ashe Ronald King (Pennsylvania) is now boro, N.C. 27203) Max L. Haner (Western Carolina) is working on his Ph.D. in Marxist employed by the Division of En viron Theories of the State at the University Jack F. McKay (Western Michigan) is a mental Management in the North of Chicago. (5220 S. Kenwood, Apt. hospital representative with Stuart Carolina Department of Natural and 601, Chicago, Ill. 60615) Pharmaceuticals. (7 30 Nolan, Glendale Economic Resources. His wife , Pat, Heights, Ill. 60137) teaches fifth grade at Valley Springs Edward F. Kirkland (Georgia Tech) is .. ' Elementary School near Asheville. a computet salesman for Burroughs Steve M!ller (Oklahoma) is currently (215 Summerglen Dr., Asheville , N.C. Corporation in Atlanta, Georgia. He employed by Tri State Business 28806) married the former June Anne Machines as a 3-M microfilm sales McClure this past March. She is an representative. (1615 South lOth St., Andrew Hastings (Delav· com attorney for the firm of Troutman, LaCrosse, Wis. 55987) pleting his Masters Dr.gr ~ rical Sanders, Lockerman and Ashmore in e ngin eering througl :ram Atlanta. (324 Pinestream Rd., N.W., Bobby Moore (Delta State), charter sponsored by his empl ting Atlanta, Ga. 30327) member of Zeta Beta and current house Electric. He and 1. Lucie Chapter Advisor, is a vice pre.sident at have two children. (136 1 •• .....:arolina Charles J . Kollar, III (Miami) has the Bank of Cleveland, Mississippi . Ave ., Pasadena, Md. 21122) completed his masters in guidance at Bobby's wife, Donna, serves as advisor the University of Bridgeport and is to the OKA little sisters organization John 0. Hatab (Lehigh) is a partner in now teaching in New Fairfield, Con at Delta State. (208 Dean St., Cleve Price, Waterhouse & Company in New necticut. (42 East Garden St., Strat land, Ms. 38732) York City. He is married and the ford, Ct. 06497) father of a nine-year-old daughter. John B. Morgan (Linfield) is a research (130 Hobart Ave. , Short Hills, N.J. Peter P. Krech (Penn State) was coordinator for the Marine Pollution 07078) recently promoted to Personnel Ecology Group based at the Oregon Relations Manager with Crozer-Chester State University Marine Science Joseph F. Haynie, III (Arkansas and Medical Center in Upland, Pa. (532 Center, School of Oceanography. (353 North Texas State) and his wife Brookhaven Rd., Apt. B-15, Brook N.E. 5th, Newport, Ore. 97365) recently became parents of a baby girl, haven, Pa. 19015) Jill Elise Haynie. (3305 High Plateau, ., . Larry C. Morgan (Western Carolina) is Garland, Tx. 7 5042) Michael B. Larkin (F:I5rida. State) is a . division manager with Broyhill completing a three-year tour '9f duty Industries in Marion, North Carolina. Ronald L. Hersbergen (Iowa) has at Hah11 Air Force Base , Germany, as (P.O. Box 1036, Marion, N.C. 28752) returned to the faculty of the LSU an F-4 pilot. He expects to. return to Law School as an associate professor. · the United States· in November for Eric J . Motz (Iowa State) is employed (1563 Pelham, Baton Rouge, La. training in new F-1.5: (403 North Ride, at the U.S. Army Management 70815) Tallahassee, Fla. 32303) Engineering Training Agency in the Executive Development area. He is Gary M. Hoffman (Pennsylvania) is William Thomas Lee (Richmond) has married. to the former Karen L. living in northern Virginia with his been appointed athletic director and McKinzie and received his MBA from wife and two daughters. He practices coordinator of student activities at the .Uh jversity of Iowa in 1975. (735 patent law with the firm of Watson, Broad Run High School in Ashburn, 20th Ave ., At>t. 1, E. Moline, Ill. Cole, Grindle and Watson in Washing Virginia. He previously served five 61244) ton, D.C. (5436 Calstock Court, years as head baseball coach and Burke, Va. 22015) assistant football coach at Broad Run. Roger W. Myers (Miami) is presently a (Country Club Apts., E-5, Leesburg, free-lance scientific illustrator. His Charles M. Ingram (North Carolina) is Va. 22075) wife Anne is a biological oceanog enrolled in Cumberland Schr "11 of Law rapher. (710 Whiskey Hill Rd. , Wood at Samford University in Birmingham, Scott LeFaver (California State-San side, Calif. 94062) , where he organized and was elected Jose) recently started his own con James Ronald Nassar (Delta State) is a president of the North Carolina Law sulting firm after serving as planning terrestrial ecologist for Nuclear Util Student Section. He also serves as a director of the City of Gibsy for three ities Service Corporation, an environ' lieutenant in the Naval Reserve. (P.O. and a half years. He is also now mental consultant firm in Houston, Box 127, Kenansville, N.C. 28349) working for a doctorate in Public Texas. (2010 Savannah Court South, Administration at the University of League City, Tx. 77573) Stephen A. Isaacs (William and Mary) Southern California. (505 South 12th, is practicing law in Richmond, Vir- San Jose, Calif. 95112) Mike Parnell (Mi,llsaps) recently tKI\1 I:KI'\411 T Jf~VtiLt. received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Mississippi Medical School. Mike is now doing a surgical residency at Baylor University Hospital in Dallas. (6775 Eastridge Dr., Apt. 2068, Dallas, Tx. 75231) Robert W. Pasco (Carnegie-Mellon) is .currently employed as a metallurgist for Interlake, Inc. , Feroalloys Division Beverly, Ohio. (P.O. Box 4, Fleming' Ohio 45729) '
Lt. Frank G. Pfeiffer (Cincinnati) is a pilot with Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 112 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ranger. Prior to this he was stationed at Corpus Christi Texas, as a flight instructor. He and hi~ wife Carol have a two-year-old daugh~er, Kathy. (8548 Hydra Lane, San Diego, Calif. 92126) Paul Privett (Penn State) recently received the "Salesman of the Year" award during the annual national sales meeting of Professional Tape Co., Inc. (924 Farragut St., Pittsburgh, Pa. 15206)
David Riemann (Millsaps) is manager of Riemann Insurance Companies in Long Beach, Missi_sslppi. He is .a mem· ber of the Chamber of Commerce and the Sales and Markl:!ting Executives Association. (202 N. Island View , Long Beach, Ms. 39560) LCDR Terry G. Robertson (Oregon State) recently received a promotion to LCDR in the U.S. Navy and is currently attending the Army Com· mand and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. (LCDR Terry Robertson, Chief, Navy Section, Bell Hall, USACGSC, Fort Leaven· worth, Kansas 66027) James D. Robinson (Miami-Ohio) was recently promoted to the position of Marketing Planning Associate with Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis. (7762 Ditch Rd., Indianapolis, Ind. 46260) Alan N. Sexton (Georgia State) is Larry Stahl (Florida Southern) is a George E. Roller (Illinois) is chairman leading the entire 4,200-member sales marketing representative with IBM of the English department at Coral staff of the Franklin Life Insurance Corporation in their office products Gables High School. He is also atten Company in total volume of sales in division. He was his branch office sales ding the University of Miami Law the United States. He is also active in leader in copier and dictation equip School on the night program. (6055 N. the Atlanta Alumni Association as a ment sales and also a district sales Waterway Dr., Miami, Fla. 33155) member of its board of directors. leader in 1975. (850 N.E. 141 Street, N. Miami, Fla. 33161) Steven E. Ryan (Iowa State) was E. Dexter Shank (Cincinnati) is in his promoted to Manufacturing Industry fourth year as a savings and loan Oliver K. Stanley (Wofford) is Specialist for the data processing examiner for the Federal Home Loan employed as Director of Plant Safety division of IBM Corporation. He Bank Board. (3901 Tenth Ave. South, and Environmental Protection for the served six years as a supply officer in Minneapolis, Mn. 55407) General Electric Company in their the Navy after his graduation from mobile radio products department. Iowa State. He joined IBM as a pro John H. Spivey (Wake Forest) was (2447 Rolaeson Dr. , Florence, S.C. grammer in the plant at Boca Raton, recently named the Southeastern 29501) Florida, and then was transferred to United States Sales Director of the Wichita branch office. He is a past Champion Parts Rebuilders, Inc. of John W. Steele (Penn State) was president of the Wichita Chapter of Chicago. He is responsible for after promoted to supervising engineer in the American Production and Inven market sales in North Carolina, South charge of the Bradenton district of tory Control Society and serves as Carolina, Georgia and Florida. (6619 Florida Power and Light Company. secretary of the Wichita Running Club. Olde Savannah Rd. , P.O. Box 25096, (301 Amherst Ave., Sarasota, Fla. (9804 W. 12th St., Wichita, Ks. Charlotte, N.C. 28212) 33580)
29 Joseph R. Stoessel, Jr. (Southern Mis· Initiation dates ity program which is known for white sissippi) is currently employed with 1970 to 1975 water raft and canoe trips. the General Electric Company in a marketing position. He and his wife Jamie Anding (Millsaps) recently Rev. Gregg Hill (Delaware) recently are the parents of a two-year-old received a masters degree in philos graduated from the Wesleyan daughter. (10111 Westwego Place, ophy and is now a Ph.D. candidate at Seminary in Washington, D.C. After Louisville, Ky. 40299) the Un iversity of Waterloo. (P.O. Box attending the U.S. Army Chaplain 944, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) School this summer, he will take full Mike Sturdivant (Millsaps) has com charge of two churches in Lewisville, pleted study at Harvard University Wayne Blansett (Delta State) is Assis Pennsylvania. (General Delivery, Business School and is a cotton farmer tant Dean of Student Affairs at Delta Lewisville, Pa. 19351) in Cruger, Mississippi. (Box 169, State and serves as advisor to the Cruger, Ms. 38924) Greek system. He was SMC of Zeta Charles R. Hinman (Millsaps) has com Beta chapter in 1972-73 and a former pleted his first year at the University Ronald G. Thompson (Arizona) is Powers Award winner. Brother Blan of Mississippi Medical School. Charlie working as a television news reporter sett is married to the former Dianne is in the U.S. Navy Medical School for KTAR-TV in Phoenix. Last year he Woods of Winona, Ms. (DSU campus, Program and served as an officer in the was nominated for Arizona Newsman Cleveland Ms. 38732) Navy this summer. (4046 N. State St., of the Year. (2036 W. Rancho Dr. , Jackson, Ms. ) Phoenix, Ariz. 85015) James D. Campbell (Virginia Tech) recently assumed the position of Jimmy Humphrey (Concord) was Ruff Turner (Delta State) is currently County Administrator in Fluuanna married June 19 to Carol Yamber. He chairman of the art department at County, Virginia. (Route 1, Box 66-A, works for the Raleigh County School Millsaps College. He has also been Fork Union, Va. 23055) System. (100 Brown St., Beckley, W. elected to serve as an advisor to nKA 's Va. 25801) Alpha Iota chapter at Millsaps. (%Mill William P. Carroll (Millsaps) is director saps College, Jackson, Ms. 39202) of music at St. John's Methodist Archie James (Delta State) recently Church in Greenwood, Mississippi. Bill joined the training program with IBM Robert J. Venn (Arizona) graduated is also on the board of directors of the as a sales representative in Jackson, from the University of California at Greater Greenwood Foundation for Mississippi. (Apt. 4-207, Trace wood San Francisco Dental School this past the Arts and a participant in the Little Village, 6300 Old Canton Rd. , Jack June and is practicing dentistry in Theatre. (1001 Grand Blvd., Green son, Ms. 39211) Tucson, Arizona. wood, Ms. 38930) Ronnie Mayers (Delta State) is the Michael W. Walters (Virginia) is Chip Cole (Delta State) is enrolled in a new Director of Aquatics and a working for Coca-Cola as a financial doctoral program in the school of physical education instructor at Delta analyst and has recently been placed business at the University of Arkansas State. He was Zeta Beta's SMC in on a special project to reconstruct the at Fayetteville. He served as resident 1973-74 and is married to the former company's pension plan . His wife Joan counselor to Alpha Zeta during the Karen Scott of Natchez, Mississippi. works for a governmental agency as a 1975-76 academic year. (%Alpha Zeta (P.O. Box 3286, DSU, Cleveland, Ms. social worker. (448 Greenwood Ave., chapter, 320 Arkansas Ave., Fayette 38732) Atlanta, Ga. 30308) ville, Ark. 72071) Donald L. Moak (Delta State), former Kurt E. Warner (Florida Southern) was Henry Cox (Millsaps) writes and pro chapter advisor to Zeta Beta, is cur recently promoted to District Sales duces educational filmstrips and rently a senior vice president of the Manager for United States Lines. He recordings for children. He also works Bank of Clarksdale, Mississippi. was transferred to Houston from Oak for the Jackson Municipal Library (Country Club Apts., No. 806, Crest land, California. (1907 Harold St., System. (332 Adelle St., Jackson, Ms. line Ave., Clarksdale, Ms . 38614) Houston, Tx. 77006) 39202) William L. "Bill" Moody (Tennessee) Lane B. West (Georgia State) recently Roger Daniels (Concord) is the Direc was recently transferred to Omaha, joined Meidinger Associations in their tor of Music at Shady Spring Junior Nebraska, where he is an accountant Richmond, Virginia office. (1708 High School in West Virginia. Roger is with ConAgra Incorporated. Windingridge Dr., Richmond, Va. married to the former Cathy Gadd and 23233) he plans to enter the University of Gene Newman (Delta State) is Southern Mississippi in the near future employed by the Bank of Anguilla, Mike Whelan (Delta State) is currently to work on his masters. Mississippi. He is married to the enrolled in a doctoral program in former Linda Carr of Greenwood. counseling psychology at the Univer Mickey Green (Montevallo) has left his Brother Newman is a former SMC of sity of Southern Mississippi. He is a post with Xerox and has assumed a Zeta Beta chapter and a national former nKA district president and was sales terri tory with Baxter Industries Powers Award recipient. (900 Martin, a co-founder of a secret organization serving central and north Alabama. He Greenwood, Ms. 38930) at Delta State. (Route 4, Morgan Apt. and his wife Mary have two children. 3, Hattiesburg, Ms. 39401) Joseph P. Orgaz (Miami) is vice presi Bill Greenleaf (Delta State) is cur dent of Willis A. Smith, Inc., General Jerry Wright (Oregon) was recently rently in a masters program in biology Contractors, in Sarasota, Florida. transferred to Los Angeles as an at Delta State University where he is (2537 Robinson Lane, Sarasota, Fla. account executive with Parker Adver assistant track coach. He is also the 33580) tising, Inc. (6904 Los Verdes Dr., school's mascot, " Mr. Statesman." David A. Penly (Western Carolina) is a Rancho Palis Verdes, Calif. 90274) (%Delta State Univ., Cleveland, Ms. 38732) sales manager of the Winston-Salem Gregory M. Zimmer (Western Hyatt House in North Carolina. (P.O. Michigan) is currently a senior owner Box 323, Winston-Salem, N.C. 27102) relations specialist with the American David B. Heflin (Delta State) is an Motors Corporation in Michigan. instructor in the department of phys Steve L. Roden (Florida State) was (18240 Norwich, Livonia, Mich. ical education at Delta State. He is the recently promoted to Assistant Vice 48152) pioneer of Delta State's outdoor activ- President of the Lewis State Bank in Tallahassee. He was formerly director of management development for the First Financial Corporation, of which Preacher Gordon dies the Lewis State is a member bank. His younger brother, Scott, is a recent initiate of Delta Lambda chapter at was most responsible for building the Florida State. Presbyterian University Student Arthur W. Simmons (Southern Center. Methodist) is now attending Art Rev. Gordon said he preferred to be Center College of Design in Pasadena, called "Preacher" and was often quick California. (1136 Princeton, No. B, to remind people he was not named Santa Monica, Calif. 90403) after Civil War General U.S. Grant. Brother Gordon graduated in 1915 Jimmy Springer (South Alabama) is fro n Southwestern-at-Memphis, was now a very successful sales repre· ordained three years later and received sentative for RESCO, refrigeration his doctor of divinity in 1930. One of supply company in Mobile. (422 W. his better-known trademarks was a Vista Court, Mobile, Ala. 36609) pocket full of buckeye beans he gave John R. Tanner (Delta State) is an friends for luck. instructor in the school of business at Scores of Pi Kappa Alphas who Delta State University and recently knew Preacher Gordon informally made the all-star intramural basket· eulogized him in letters and notes on ball team at DSU. (Box 2837, DSU, clippings sent to the Memorial Head Cleveland, Ms. 38732) quarters. Brother E. Gex Williams, Jr. said, " Pi Kappa Alpha lost one of its Warner Wadlington (Millsaps) is a most devout members. Preacher farmer in Sledge, Mississippi, but he Gordon was a continuing inspiration still finds time for hunting, tennis and golf. (Route 2, Box 178-A, Sledge, Ms. U.S. "Preacher" Gordon, to our chapter at the University of 38760) Southwestern-at-Memphis Florida." Dr. Gordon never married and had Joseph G. Wilson (Millsaps) is an attor· "With a buckeye in his pocket, a no immediate family . Pi Kappa Alpha ney in Memphis and an active member sheepish grin on his face, and a was his family as much as his beloved of the Episcopal Church. (3832 Way pets. He never objected to dogs atten noka, Memphis, Tn. 38111) mischievous twinkle in his eye, he walked erect and stood tall. ding church services; in fact, he "He was a man at ease with saint encouraged it. On one occasion, a man Terry G. Winstead (Millsaps) travels got up to take a dog out of the church throughout the state of Mississippi as a and sinner alike, with rich and poor, and Preacher Gordon said, without a real estate appraiser with the Miss. with educated and uneducated - one hesitation in his sermon, "If that dog State Highway Department. He is a who knew no strangers. His ready wit goes, I go." licensed real estate salesman and a provided him with an answer for every haven't accomplished all I've member of the Mississippi Public occasion - some humorous, some "I Employees Association. (7 4 7 Forest wanted to in the ministry," Dr. Ave., Jackson, Ms. 39206) barbed, some bold, but all provided windows through which we peeked Gordon once said. "Nobody ever does. A man's grasp must exceed his reach into the soul of a saint." The words penned above by Jerry that's what heaven is for." Hayner, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Gainesville, Fla., were about Frank B. Powers, Tennessee his friend and Pi Kappa Alpha servant VIP ALUMNI Dr. Ulysses Short "Preacher" Gordon Frank B. Powers, Zeta chapter, who died at age 82 on April 3. brother and son of two Pi Kappa Brother Gordon was more than a Alpha national presidents, died friend to all - he was a beloved recently after a long illness. He was 63. Brother to Pi Kappa Alpha for whom He was a part, at one time or he served more than a score. He was another, of almost every civic organi National Chaplain, 1936-1956 and zation in Knoxville and headed many. National Alumni Secretary on the He was instrumental in the post-War Supreme Council, 1956-1958. Rev. growth of his community as a business Gordon was minister of the First leader. Presbyterian Church in Gainesville for Johnson He graduated in 1934 after serving 40 years before retiring in 1968 and as SMC of Zeta chapter. In 1939 he S. W. Johnson, Auburn was a spiritual advisor to generations joined the National Advertising of University of Florida students. He Department of the local News-Sentinel Professor Jack as he was called by his and soon became manager of it. He students died after a long illness was president of Vulcan Equipment later became an advertising manager, recently. Brother Johnson, 76, was and Supply Company. business manager and graduated to the ,associate professor emeritus of Professor Jack received Upsilon's New York office of Scripps-Howard political science at Auburn University Clarence W. Allgood Outstanding Newspapers. In 1972 he retired after and an initiate of Upsilon chapter. He Alumnus Award in 1974 and had a serving as vice president and director was also a member of the Alabama and close, warm relationship with the of the E. W. Scripps Co., parent to the Southern Historical Associations and Upsilon brothers through many years. Scripps-Howard Newspapers.
31 HISTORY
John R. Perez's 13 years at helm-revisited
By Dr . Paul G. Blount the Shield & Diamond reveal From the start he appeared as a His torian little. But, replies to letters sent President of whom we .could be to alumni who knew Perez and proud." The same alumnus re Of the national presidents who information supplied generously calls that the Pi Kappa Alpha have led Pi Kappa Alpha, little is from members of the Perez talk of the day was Perez' "asso recorded about one of its more family all paint a colorful ciation with a Ziegfield Follies colorful personalities and longest portrait. star." servants, John R. Perez, initiated Several alumni who recall A daughter, Mrs. Mercedes in 1908 at Alpha Gamma Perez are still impressed by the Mack, now living in Baton (Louisiana State). The Fraternity figure he cut. One Pi Kappa Rouge, recalls vividly that her history, as Freeman Hart first Alpha who attended two con father was a natty dresser and a wrote it in 1934, records that ventions when he was president man who loved the good life. She Perez was one of the "younger" recalls that Perez was "hand recalls the white spats and the leaders during the second decade some" and his wife was "a most cane. His favorite drink was a of the twentieth century, supple attractive lady." The alumnus Taco Toddy, the recipe being menting the leadership of the old continues: "I remember at one "lots of sugar, crushed orange guard Robert Smythe, Howard convention I thought the Perez' peel and a fifth of bourbon." Arbuckle and P. T. Atkinson. were the most striking couple I Mrs. Mack remembers her father Perez was elected Grand Princeps had ever seen on a ballroom as very involved in New Orleans in 1917 and held that office until floor" and "John R. enjoyed life society and a member of ex 1930, when he was succeeded by to the fullest. I have never clusive clubs, such as Carnival Elbert Tuttle. (It was during one known a finer person." Another Krewe that puts on the big Mardi of Tuttle's terms from alumnus recalls Perez's personal Gras parade; one time he was the 1933-1938 that the title was appearance and his personality: club's captain. changed from Grand Princeps to Latin features, dark hair, dark He was an avid hunter and National President.) Perez was eyes, ruddy complexion, "a very fisherman. The family had a the eleventh of Pi Kappa Alpha's attractive man, a true extrovert." camp on Diamond Island in the 30 national presidents to date, Perez's granddaughter, Susan Tideland region of the state and served during the years when Mcintosh of Charleston, South which could be reached only by the United States was involved in Carolina, writes "someone, some boat and for that occasion Perez World War I and while Pi Kappa where should mention that he had a shrimp boat converted, the Alpha expanded from 41 to 76 was a meticulous dresser, wore Katie L., named after his wife. charters. The History of Pi spats and carried a walking cane Mrs. Mack recalls that during the Kappa Alpha finally records (part of his image rather than a 1970 New Orleans Convention, Perez' death in the same decade, necessity) until he died in August Perez gave a party at the ex 1948-1958, when three other Pi 1955 - probably the last man clusive New Orleans Yacht Club, Kappa Alpha stalwarts died: left in America wearing spats. where he served boiled crabs, John L. Packer, Pike Powers and Where he kept replacing them I'll shrimp and crawfish, which Powell B. McHaney. But that is never know." many Pi Kappa Alphas in atten all. Another alumnus remembers dance were tasting for the first Sales's Register for 1916 Perez as an active alumnus time. records his full name as Johnston interested in affairs of Eta chap Mrs. Mack remembers her Rene Perez, born August 1, ter at Tulane and thinks that the father's law practice, which he 1890, St. Bernard Parish. Married chapter may have purchased a carried on in New Orleans and to Katie Lee Wyatt on October chapter house "on Broadway" neighboring parishes for over 40 8, 1912; lawyer. from Perez. Still another alum years. His practice was almost These facts record an impor nus could recall Perez as a "per exclusively civil law. Among tant figure but little of the color fect gentleman, who did much those he worked for were the that surfaces in references by Pi for Pi Kappa Alpha." An alum poor, hard-working shrimp Kappa Alphas who knew him. nus from New York, involved in fishermen and others from Gulf Was there, for example, a Paris early n K A northern expansion, Coast parishes. Sometimes he meeting of the Supreme Council remembers being impressed by received shrimp or wine in lieu of during his time? Back issues of Perez's "looks and bearing." fees. soon on Third Street walking with the girls:" From these bits of info r mation, a fuller picture emerge of an in teresting figure whose many-sided personality measured up to his name, Johnston Rene Perez, which in its fullness is Anglo-Sax on , Fre n c h and Spanish . A list of events accom plished at national conventions during Perez's administration are many: an increase in power for district presidents; the Supreme Council first increased, then d ecreased ; one-term pledgi ng made mandatory before initi ation; mandatory alumni ·dues; life endowment for the Sh ield & D iamond; a standing committee to handle house loans; and a national expansion policy. No doubt through many of these moves the hand of Robert Smythe, Grand Treasurer, can be seen. But, Perez was the ational He had a strong interest in to his and Mrs. Perez's trips President who served the longest politics, in which he was a strict abroad to the Mediterranean, when forces in the Fraternity conservative, and served for a South America and Europe. were moving toward a new era short while in the state legis Perez was traveling when he died inaugurated by Elbert Tuttle and lature. He did not run for any of heart failure while on vacation others at the Colorado Con other office but one alumnus in Rockford, Maine. vention of 1933. who replied to our inquiry, a A portrait of the collegiate Perez is survived by his widow retired judge, writes that Perez Perez is supplied by Van Perkins, who lives in New Orleans; his son was "supposed to run for gover an undergraduate who sends John Perez, Jr., of Covington, nor one year but for some reason information from the Gumbo, Louisiana, who did not follow he did not do so." Mrs. Mack Louisiana State University year his father into Pi Kappa Alpha, recalls that Perez called a "con book of 1909: Perez was a but who is a Kappa Alpha; and vention" in Paris, France. The member of the Romeo Club, in two daughters, Mrs. Mercedes family did not attend. which he had the title of Mack, quoted in this article, and One alumnus replying to our "worthy." The motto of the club Mrs. Arthur Huey. was to call on "seven young inquiry could recall only about We acknowledge thanks to the fol · Perez that Smythe, Perez and ladies seven nights a week." lowing Pi Kappa Alphas who replied to "another member called a grand Perez was one of two Pi Kappa inquiries about John R. Perez: council meeting in Paris, France, Alphas to graduate from Louisi George M. Gladding (Chicago, Til.) some year at the expense of the ana State in 1909 - there were Daniel B. Wexler (Johnson City , Tn.) Fraternity." 13 in the chapter. The yearbook George R. Bowling (Lafayette, Ala.) Finally Mrs. Mack remembers gives the following additional Congressman Paul Jones (Kennett, Mo.) her father as "dynamic, dig information: Perez's degree was William A. Wiltberger (Albuquerque, NM) Merle R. Williams (Amarillo, Tx.) nified," a person who loved to an LLB; he was on the football Archer Wheatley (Jonesboro, Ark.) read and who "would write to and baseball teams, in the Uni Charles P. Ballard (Fort Myers, Fla.) anyone" and who often versity band, and in a club called Wilson B. Heller (Los Angeles, Calif.) answered editorials. WCTU (Water Can't Touch Us); Adolph F. Shafter (Ogden, Utah) Catholic; favored women suf Frank P. Elizardi (Kerrville, Tx.) She remembers that he Daniel Boone (Nashville, Tn.) admired "good looking women" frage; worshipped blondes and Denoyelles Christie (Nanuet, N.Y.) and loved to travel. An article in his ambition was "to be in Van Perkins (Louisiana State Univ.) an old Shield & Diamond refers Society, wear sporty clothes, be Eddie Davis (Baton Rouge, La.)
33 CNTRIBlJrORS
ALPHA E . F I ELO- 25 KAPPA SIGM A j. H I NES-22 T. CRENSHAW JR -It6 0. CELLON-50 J. HADER JR-70 W. JOHNSON-18 W. OYKSTRAI-56 R. CELLCN JR-53 "- • 8EE8E•45 W. HAFFNER JR-64 J. BARCLAV-13 M. AL SPAU GH-65 P. KOE~BER-21 f. EXLEY-20 H . CLEAVELAND JR-43 w. CAVE-~4 J . HALL JA-.C.7 W. FRASI€R-26 R. B~UCE-•7 L. RAMSEY-22 A. GANDY -52 R. COLE JR-It9 M. EVERHAAT-66 E. HALLIBUPTGN-25 J. GENTRY-30 T. BRUMIT JR-54 C. HOLHAN-51 A. CONLEY-50 ... GULL I FCRCJ-39 w. HARRISON JR-61 I . KEllY-12 J. COX JR-37 OMEGA R. LECNAR0-56 A. CR.OSBY-16 H. HAN NAH III ,_0-57 C . HARTY-42 R. MICHAELS-59 A. OERRICK-27 P. MCGINNIS-74 w. OIAl-27 F. HESTER-26 W. HAWKINS-46 P. HOSCA-b8 0. OEVORE-65 A. BRCWN-38 E. MCPHER SON lll-61 C. EARNEST-22 A. HIGGINS-25 G. HE ... MR I CH-64 C . HYERS-56 T. EMISON JR-62 w. BUFOR0-69 J. MICHAEL JR-55 C. FABRY-64 G. HOBBS JR-•9 C. HE R0-4 2 J. NE LSCN J~-35 J. F I TZGE RALC-63 E. CLEMENTS-16 e. Ml CKLER-5S R. FLEM I NG-27 J. HUOSCN JR-41 W. HICKS-47 M. POPE-59 O. GEOOIE-56 A. OALY-62 H. MONT AGUE-41 "'· GWYNN-51 G. IYEY-23 J. HI LL-49 R. RAVE,..-64 P. GREEN JR-47 B. OAVIS-63 J. MOPRIS-57 G. HAR"ONY-14 S. KE tTH JR-30 J . HOFF-59 J. ROBINSCN-36 J. GREENE JR-5 2 K. OOZIER JR-66 T. PARKS ll-12 T. HAYOON-36 M. LEAC8EATEA-30 J. HOWEATON-45 G. ROHRER-7C A. HtLL-25 0 . EWING-33 0. PAYNE-46 N. HINOERLITER-H E . LOWMAN-43 A. JEFFREY-66 R. SCHJCK-62 E. KELLY JR-64 \11. FE ILEA JR-59 G. PILKlNGTCh 11-56 J. HOPKI NSPA-4 1 H. HI NICH-5l F. KUHLMAN JR-69 G. SHEL TON-30 S. LANGA-69 W. GORHAM S~-37 J. PITTS-13 C. JOHNS-52 C. OWEN-•8 H. LANDESS SR- 17 W. Tl NCHER JA-45 A. MA NN ING-49 F. HAAS-58 M. POWELl JR-68 L. JR-44 0 . PATTON-57 T. LAWSCN JR-62 P. TRE,.,T-47 F. MASC N Ill-55 W. HANLEY-57 E. SHAVER-67 A. KASCH-53 W. RAHMIG-54 G. LEWIS JR-32 L . WAAREN-12 G. NELSON JR-32 V. HELLARD JR-65 W. SH AVER-42 S. KEll Y-45 T. SCt1NE I OEJi-68 L. LUNSFORD-71 R. WILSON-59 R. NE LSCN JR-69 0. K I NKE A0-62 H. SMITH JR-47 W. LECNAR0-49 R. STEVENS-65 J. MAALCW-69 W. NUNNELLY JR-t2 J. KLOPP-59 H. S T AHL-64 P. HACCMSER-63 J. TR IP'IIKLE-47 O. MCOONAL0-6 7 MU T. PAGE-47 T. LATT A-69 W. STEPHENS JR-45 A. HARTIN-37 C. WALSH 111-39 w. MCD C,., ALD-54 E. PETR ONE-3B W. LE GR ANC-69 W. ST EPHENSCh JR-47 G. MASSEY -39 E. WALTER-48 R. HOBLEY-6Ci 8 . 8RCWN JR-4 7 w. PIERCE I ll-55 0. MC GUI RE-63 C. SWEET-53 A. MATEKA-63 G. HORGAN JR-65 J . SULLW INKEl-34 0. PORTER-64 H. HI NO~ JR-58 A. TENPENNY-57 Q. HAYS-71 BETA A. OGDEN MD-it3 N. CHARLES-~4 P. POWERS-47 G. MORRIS-58 J. THCMAS-56 D. HCKNIGHT-t2 w. OGLE-47 J . DURANT-57 C. RANKIN JR-47 T . SPRAGENS JR-57 T. TURNER JA-t:3 l. MCLEAN 11-59 G. BAILY-30 w. ONE I L-22 J. GLOVER-66 C. 5 I MFSON-57 H. TRAVNOP-32 P. WELCH-23 8 . MUN~C-46 J. FOUCHE JA- 59 W. PARKER-26 J. HAFLEY-36 J. SI MS JR-36 A. WE IKEl-6 2 W. WHEELER-59 C. NALL JR-52 J. HARPER JR- 51 J. PORTE R-4 3 A. JACCBS J~-6 3 E. WllKINSON-32 P. WI LLETT- 69 C. WHITMORE JR-43 H. NE AL-b3 O. HENOEASC~-39 J. POWERS lll-21t W. K i RTLA,.,D-66 J. NQRTON-26 A. HILLHCUSE-21 v. 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HCHACK EN-68 S. 8ALTOOCNC-70 J. 8AKANE -7 2 R. SEEFE LOT·54 J . DODSON-58 J . BROWN-62 R. BUNT I N-64 W. ODELL-66 C. OUPIANTJ S- 74 R. FALLS-72 J. STRIETER-53 0. OUNN -65 J . CAATER -6 1 T. GRAHAH-69 O. PARS ONS-70 R. GU tlli CT JR-70 A. MUELLER-74 A. WELGE-59 J . ELLIOTT-68 O. K IAKPAT RtcK- 61 S. HALLI BUATQN-69 H. SA RG0-69 K. JAM8CN-69 E. ST INSON·72 A. WULF -59 J. GLANVILLE- 58 W. LAFORGE - 6 39 PII By Larry Lunsford ter consultant from Zeta chapter further. The Housing Commission had !::.'Z. Resident Counselor which had been blessed with awards made an unprecedented grant of a and happy days during my four years third moratorium to the local house there. Delta Xi was struggling for corporation. The latter was due to the Ray Orians, Director of Housing and existence and was constantly taking its fact that the Commission had Finance for Memorial Headquarters, last breath of life. The chapter guaranteed a second mortgage on the was speaking to six chapter members had to work for everything house made in 1970, and the Head consultants during their staff training they got. They appreciated the chapter quarters staff wanted to maintain its in July, 197 4. He was explaining the consultant and sought his help. chapters on prestigious campuses. Fraternity's McBee chapter accounting Four days before I was to report And, Indiana is a prestigious school, system. He had brought with him to for graduate orientation at Indiana the nation's seventh largest campus. Pi the meeting a financial statement of Uni versity, I was notified that I was Kappa Alpha first colonized there in one particular chapter. Orians accepted to the CSP A program. I 1950 only to lose the chapter four commented that the consultant which contacted Executive Director Pat years later. The Fraternity rechartered was assigned that chapter in his Halloran and informed him of my in 1965 at a time when student unrest traveling region was destined to have his hands full. Delta Xi chapter (Indiana) showed total liabilities of $20,821.61 as of June 30, 1974. Little did I know that I would spend the next two years helping to rebuild and reorganize the ailing Indiana chapter. I happened to be one of those new chapter consultants meeting with Ray Orians that summer. I, too, felt sorry for the guy whose charge was to help relieve Delta Xi's money problems. Two weeks later I was assigned to travel the Midwest Region which included the troubled chapter. Not only was I to visit Delta Xi among my 25 chapters, but the Resident Counselor Larry Lunsford helps chapter was "lucky" enough to receive Delta Xi member John Laymon put the my raw, first visit. I won the honors chapter's calendar "to bed." when chapter president Greg Horn, on and a liberal campus turned anti his way back to school, came by decision to attend Indiana. He had a Greek. The large number of frater Memphis to meet with the staff in an request from Greg Horn for a resident nities and sororities held ground. Pi attempt to develop programs to aid counselor. I was offered the position, Kappa Alpha flourished during its new the chapter the following academic and the next day I was off to tenure and grew to a 70-man house. year. That was mid-August when the Bloomington to resume my college The move to the present house, sold to consultants start their road trips, so I and fraternity careers. the Fraternity by the defunct Alpha made the journey to Bloomington What is a resident counselor? I had Xi Delta Sorority, proved to be a with the SMC to start my long road to ask myself the question and be hazardous step for the young chapter trip as a consultant with the Hoosiers. prepared with an adequate answer six years ago. As the programs, I visited Delta Xi three times as a because I would be asked the query leadership and membership began to chapter consultant. The chapter made dozens of times in the next weeks. deteriorate in the anti-Greek atmo some progress in membership recruit~ Why was I there? What was I supposed sphere, unpaid bills piled up as did the ment but very little progress toward to do? I possessed a tense anticipation delinquent loan payments due the reducing its outstanding debt. By the about my responsibilities; yet, I knew Housing Commission. Delta Xi's future time I visited the chapter for the last from a year's experience with the was critical. time in February, 197 5, I found them national staff the feelings toward an As I reviewed the history of the in a bad slump and uninterested in outsider in one's chapter. I expected chapter, I began to search for ways for chapter activities. I wasn't sure they opposition and difficult times with improvement. We couldn't turn to the would make it. Delta Xi. alumni for financial support because It was Christmas, 1975, when I I learned later that some chapter there were few from the early 1950's decided not to renew my contract in members had questioned, behind and the most recent alumni had not June. It was time for me to begin job closed doors, my relevance, but the been out of school long enough to hunting; but considering the critical remainder of the chapter made me feel have developed complete financial employment field, I also thought it welcome from the beginning. That was stability themselves. We would have to wise to check into some graduate vital to my personal morale. I had sacrifice. We would have to rush. schools. Tennessee, my undergraduate worried about acceptance but Rush. Rush. Rush. school, Maryland and Indiana Univer attempted to make it clear in the first Goals had to be set. I read to the sity were on my list of potential house meeting the reason for my being chapter facts about Beta Omicron graduate schools. I leaned toward there and my personal as well as the (Oklahoma) and how they won the Indiana partly because Delta Xi had Memorial Headquarters' goals for the 1974 Newell Award for most improve become a favorite chapter. -group. ment. They attributed their success to A favorite chapter? Odd, yes, but I The chapter knew that they were rush. We circulated a pamphlet, came to Bloomington a spoiled chap- on their last leg. They could decline no 1974-75. It Was a Very Good Year, written by the most improved chapter less. I picked out se ven men I wan ted sororities to join them in the dance in 1975, Gamma Alpha. Again , large to pledge and spent the next three and made some 1200 in ticket sales. debts were dissolved and the chapter months working on those gu ys. I The chapter started a cal endar project recuperated from desperation by encouraged other members to do the and netted some $600 profit in sound financial management. Delta Xi same. The result was tremendous. We adve rtising sales. It was time to start set its main goal toward winning the returned the second semester with a major house improve ments. The first 1976 Newell Award and hoped to do total of 25 pledges and 53 men li ving Where from here? There always so by doubling its chapter size and in the house, the latter undoubtedl y a comes a slump. I knew it would come completely clearing its financial mess. house record. We picked up two to Delta Xi. I didn't know when, but I Gosh, how I hated rush! After legacies from what was rated the best fe ared it. Luckily it wai ted until early rushing four years at Tennessee and fraternity on campus. Th e small and Spring when the chapte r fail ed to then visiting so many chapters to help once obsolete fraternity, Pi Kappa qualify for the campus-wide Little 500 design and implement rush programs Alpha, had been reborn on the Indiana bicycle race, but even then it was when I was a chapter consultant, I did campus. Others on campus took minor and had li ttle subse quent effect. not look forward to returning to the notice, cautiously. Optimism can be It was time for evaluation. rush routine at Indiana. It was a very dangerous. We had developed adequate and challenging and competitive Greek Many of the goals the chapter set success ful programs in finan ce, alumni campus. There were 32 fraternities, for the full year were accomplished relations, campus relations, and a li ttle making it one of the nation's largest before Christmas break. One of those sister program with 25 members had Greek campuses. was the financial debt. been established. We had weak new When I arrived at the chapter, I What appeared to be a Cinderella member, sc holarship, and to some learned that they had pledged 16 men story was unveiling for Delta Xi . Their extent, rush programs. We com that summer. There were 49 men success was being shared by each promised that it was impossible to be living in the 56-man house. The chapter member. They had succeeded completely successful in all areas. We chapter was quite optimistic about the because they believed in the lofty had made substantial improve ment upcoming year. I hoped that they goals. ove rall , and that was most important. didn't expect too much from me. I Every program had to be re Final polishing would come with time. had my own graduate program to designed. Internally, as pointed out by The future looks bright for Delta worry about, papers to write, tests to 1975-76 Chapter Consultant Jeff Xi , but tradition and Father Time have take, and I felt like a freshman again, Abraham, the chapter possessed some not bee n kind to the chapter and the wandering lost on the huge, wooded of the best programs in the country, tide could change ove rnight. The campus. "but implementing them was a dif chapter was fa ced with another Then, a ray of hope. Herbert Smith, ferent story." The chapter had to difficult summer rush task of dean for student affairs, contacted all become involved in campus activities the fraternities and asked them to help the university ease its critical housing problem. They had 900 students, mostly male, without rooms. Here was our opportunity. The chapter mem bers were psyched at the chance of filling the house. We designed some rush activities, highlighted by a dorm storm. We made contact with dozens of men. Of the many who came over for rush functions, the result was five new pledges. We were disappointed with the number, but it was competitive with the other fraternities on campus. With the rise in the cost of higher education, fraternities felt the in Leadership development was one of Luns flation crunch with a drop in member ford's specialties at Delta Xi . ship. However, Pi Kappa Alpha broke more residence hall contracts that first and improve its public reputation. It semester than any other fraternity on seemed that few people · had heard of attempting to fill the house for this campus. Pi Kappa Alpha. The chapter had fall. A bad summer rush could put the The optimism remained. Although participated in several excha~ges with chapter back in the same predicament; we didn't pledge as many men the first highly regarded sororities. They yet, considering · the caliber of men semester as we would have liked, we devoted full participation to intra pledged last year, the 1976-77 year made vital contact with many men, murals. The pledge class football team appears bright for the Pikes at Indiana. some who indicated that they would won its division and went on to play Some of the guys were foolish be interested in pledging second Tau Kappa Epsilon actives for the enough to thank me for the monu semester. I've always been a strong championship. OKA went on to win mental success. Andy Holt, president believer and teacher in the one-on-one four athletic crowns and finish third in emeritus of Tennessee, once was asked rush procedure, so we implemented intramural standings. how he became such a successful the idea. As I had witnessed in many n KA earned the sole right to host university president. He responded chapters across the country, there are an annual dance on the Belle of that he did so by surrounding himself some people who are willing to work Louisville Riverboat. The chapter with people smarter than he. Those and others who won't work, regard- invited several other fraternities and people fostered the success. Ditto. 43 Editor's note: It may appear that the Shield & Diamond has been obsessed with the question of college grading procedures since the roundtable discussion on grading (September, 1973 issue), the response of Dr. John Hargis who favors the ~---====!!!!!!!!!!!!.J contract grading system (March, 1974) and this t------i piece reprinted by permission of California l-----~=~~ Monthly, the University of California Alumni Association publication (Richard E. Corten, editor). However, foremost among Pi Kappa 1-----/,;=;;;;;;;;;;=t' Alpha's practical objectives is the educational fulfillment of its members. And the grading ques tion has held an increasing importance to collegians since the early 1970's. "Remaking the grade" is presented in the educational interests of nKA members. By Paul Desruisseaux Last spring 53 percent of Berkeley's under graduates obtained grade point averages of 3.0 or better. Fifteen years ago, only 17.9 percent of students here had B or better averages. Conclusion: students are smarter than they used to be. Remaking the grade The old straight C she During those same years, however, average scores of college-bound high school seniors on the 'Ji;:;"Pi>:R'Ki:NSciN------~ Scholastic Aptitude Test have steadily declined, reaching their lowest point on record last year. average grades for freshmen at the University of Conclusion: students are not as smart as they used Michigan in 1973-74 were the highest ever earned to be. by an entering class. At Harvard 82 percent of the What gives? class of '7 4 graduated cum laude or better. The If students are not necessarily brighter than they average undergraduate grade at the University of were 15 years ago, why the markedly better Pittsburgh is now B, up from C in 1969. At Vassar grades? What's going on is being called "grade last year, 81 percent of all grades were As and Bs; inflation," and it's rapidly becoming one of the at Amherst, 85 percent; Princeton, 70 percent; most talked about and disconcerting problems Occidental, 7 7 percent. More than half the student facing higher education. body at the University of Virginia made the dean's "Colleges and universities across the country are list last year. reporting that more of their students are earning The problem is that, like currency in an in high grades than at any time in memory," says The flation, grades mean less today. As a result, the Chronicle of Higher Education. A recent survey of validity of undergraduate transcripts is being 197 schools found that undergraduate grade seriously questioned, and standardized tests are averages had increased by about one-half of a letter becoming more important than grades for graduate grade between 1960 and 1973. Another study school admissions. Also, there is a fear that shows that the grade increase pattern applies to all outstanding work may go without recognition types of colleges - large and small, public and when all students get high grades. private, urban and rural. In California, grade inflation on the high school Some specifics: At Yale, 42 percent of all level means that Berkeley is accepting students undergraduate grades last spring were As. The from the top third of their class instead of the top 44 12 percent, as mandated by the state's Master Plan realistic career plans. It would also assure greater for Higher Education. This has led Governor equity to graduate school applicants: graduate Brown to instruct the California Postsecondary schools will have to take a much closer look at Education Commission to begin a total reappraisal transcripts; they won't be able to use GP As of the Master Plan. blindly." The causes of "gradeflation," the bestowing of On the matter of providing departments with high honors on almost everyone, are no doubt information on faculty members' grading practices, many, diverse, overlapping and interacting. The Park says: "If grades are being used as encourage Wall Street Journal's opinion is that "Teaching, ment rather than evaluation, then people reviewing curriculum, grading, and related reforms during the faculty members for promotion and tenure should past decade have lowered undergraduate academic know this." According to Park, early surveys of standards and are responsible for much of the grading informatio indicate that the number of gradeflation." temporary faculty in the category of teachers who Whatever its causes, grade inflation is real. are giving out large numbers of high grades is "way At Berkeley, concern was expressed about the out of proportion to the number of temporary seriousness of the problem as early as 1970, when faculty on campus. Perhaps they feel that, since the Academic Senate's Committee on Educational they aren't going to make their careers here, they Policy reported that "grading standards which were current as recently as 10 years ago are no longer generally observed." Last year the faculty Com mittee on Courses circulated summaries of grades in each department to again call attention to the problem, and there is now a movement underway "We are discriminating against the excel to deal with grade inflation. Chief instigator of this movement is Roderic lent students if we don't differentiate them Park, provost and dean of the College of Letters from the less able ones." and Science, which enrolls 80 percent of Berkeley's undergraduates. According to Park, grade inflation "constitutes prima facie evidence of an enormous change in educational policy. What is disturbing is that this change at Berkeley has evolved inde pendent of any stated policy of either the faculty don't want to bother getting hassled by students or the University administration." about grades." At Park's prompting, his college last fall Parks acknowledges that, "if overemphasized, established a Committee on Grade Inflation, the grading, competition, and concern with perfor charge of which was "either to provide a sound mance on the part of students does not stimulate defense of present grading practices on the Berke them and is destructive to the development of a ley campus, or, if such a defense cannot be love of learning. On the other hand," he adds, provided, to recommend alternative policies with "students today are saying 'Train us to do a job, to respect to evaluation of student achievement in succeed out there where the competition is tough.' courses." Well, part of that training is to let students The committee's approach comes down to these realistically know where they stand. Competition is two essentials: give departments comparative infor a very real and important part of existence, and we mation on their faculty members who are giving are discriminating against the excellent students if out large numbers of high grades, and record grades we don't differentiate them from less able ones." in a way that relates them to their distribution. The University does have its official devaluators Says Park: "For grades to be useful we have to of inflated grades - the Committee of Honors, relate what a grade means to the average grade in a which last year raised the GP A required for class." admission to the Honors Program from 3.0 to 3.3. His committee proposes a system whereby tran "At the same time," says Park, "we haven't scripts would include, in addition to the student's done anything about raising the bottom line GP A grade, the average grade in the class and the for probation -it's still 2.0. So students who used number of students in it. "We aren't going to be to fall below that line are now above it because of asking for any more information," Park says. "We inflated grades, and as a result we are carrying just want to disclose what's there. many more marginal students. "I see it as a realistic approach," he adds. " But I don't think it's logical to change that "Students receiving grades on this basis would be base grade," he adds. "What is logical is to make better able to assess their own abilities and to make grades meaningful by telling more about them." 45 Park readily acknowledges that many people will institutions in the country will too. W will hav disagree with his ideas. "They will argue: 'How do credibility because we will be disclosing infor you know students don't learn more in a class mation, and other schools will com und r sus where every student gets an A?' And to that I'd picion if they don't. Besides, a transcript should b_e say: 'How do you know they do ?'" more than a certificate of four years attendance, 1t " I just don't think grades are inflated," responds should tell you what a student has done." Brenda Pillars, ASUC co-vice president for aca demic affairs. "There are reasons why students are Gradeflation gobbles Greek gimmick getting better grades. They are being forced to work harder for a number of reasons, including Fraternity grades, consistently above th all-men 's social and economic ones, and the result is higher average, used to be a pro-Greek argument. But grades. Reforms like pass/no pass options have note-taking firms and essay-writing compani shave enabled students to take courses they're in teres ted diluted the old Greek test files. Besides, qui t in but might not have taken if they'd have. to hours are passe' today with the campus library or worry about getting a decent grade. And I thmk coffee shop being the booker's bordello. today's students are smarter than those of 10 or 15 The inflating grade point averages common to years ago." campuses now is stealing all the remaining aca What about those declining scores on SATs? demic thunder of the fraternities. Greeks are "Standardized tests aren't a true measure of a caught between a rock and a hard place; they must student's ability or intelligence," Ms. Pillars says. prove their academic worth more than ev r befor "High school curricula have changed quite a bit in to today's cost and image conscious coli g . But recent years. There are more innovative programs, with gradeflation, how? and not as much emphasis is being put on "There has been an enormous change in the developing the kind of skills that standardized tests image of Greeks," says Dr. Rode ric Park, dean of evaluate. Today's students have a broader range of UC-Berkeley's College of Letters and Science. Dr. knowledge." Park who is chairman of the UC committee on Park agrees in part. "The existence of grade inflation, recognizes the modem :s inflation doesn't' mean that students aren ' t sma rt , " grad~ frate~nity commitment to education. "It is no longer Identi he says. "Some of the undergraduates here no~ are fied with the people who are just drifting through among the best I've ever seen, and in companson with the students of 1960 those of today are at college." . The fraternity should support programs whtch least as smart. But to attribute a rise of .4 in GP A return distinctiveness and significance to grad s in 15 years to the fact that students are smarter is Park suggests. The programs, for example, adopted just as superficial as saying it's because we're by the UC committee which relate grades to their teaching better." total distribution (how many high grades wer Ms. Pillars says she might have no objection to given in a particular class) and identification of disclosing more information about grades. "But what a grade actually means. Berkeley fraternities before rushing into something like this we should are solidly behind the idea of expanding th explore other ways of measuring student abil~ty, student's transcript to show what he or sh has perhaps more beneficial, like the written evaluatiOn actually accomplished. format at UC Santa Cruz, where there are no letter "They (the programs) are two useabl id as,': grades." says Park. "One involves working with the fa ulty While other schools have recognized the impli and the other with the student. Both ideas are cations of grade inflation, few, acccording to Park, supported by Greeks at Cal." . have taken meaningful measures to bring it under The old fraternity test files gave way to resi control. "Some private colleges have taken a dential education on the progressive campuses of window-dressing approach to the problem; Yale has late. But, "students are no longer wanting to pull reinstituted the F and Stanford has brought back the campus into their living quarters," says Park, so the D. But we've had Ds and Fs all along, and we Greeks will have to find new ways to justify their have grade inflation. All that these other schools existence academically. Mass support from Gr ks have done is put themselves in a league with for gradeflation-fighting ideas could be on answ r. Berkeley by admitting they have a problem." And looking past graduation to the employment "If it can technically be done, I should think we could start recording grades this way in the fall . office, just being a member of a college fraternity That would be my target date." could pay dividends to the vocational recruit. At Does he think it would catch on with other least the personnel manager knows he did som - schools? "I'll bet that if we go to a system like this, thing more than simply make the dean's list. within two or three years most of the top 46 OPDATE What's a Modulogue? wrap-around may be mailed nKA is a lifetime inexpensively with any number of experience to most Modulogue is the logo for Pi Kappa specialized module inserts which Alpha's module catalogue of pertain to rush. The entire Modulogue About 72 percent of OKA alumni information, tips and suggestions. on rush may be ordered, or a portion recently surveyed mildly or strongly The information clearinghouse system of it. agreed the Fraternity affiliation is a replaced the publication of operation Other Modulogue topics include lifetime experience. The survey was manuals as a medium to present housing, finance, kitchen operation, conducted by International Group ideas and information to active public relations, publications, alumni Plans which coordinates the alumni and undergraduates. relations, conventions and Fraternity's group insurance policies. Each subject area, previously conferences, SMC and many others About 20 percent of over 4,100 alumni covered by a manual, plus others, currently in the production stage. randomly surveyed responded making has a module "wrap-around" and As new information on specific it a valid, if not exact, sample of several inserts, all catalogued at the topics is learned, new inserts will be alumni. Memorial Headquarters. The subject added to the catalogued list. Another 52 percent said they want "rush," for example, has a Chapters and involved alumni will to be involved in their own chapter to wrap-around addressed to the rush receive a brochure outlining the some or great extent while 39 percent chairman outlining his responsibilities Modulogue program this fall want to be involved in OKA nationally. and giving a preview of the including a complete listing of topics A whopping 78 percent want to be challenges of his position. The and insert subjects. kept informed about their chapter's 1------1status and 88 percent want OKA news. Sixty-four percent said they read 1------,.------! each issue of the Shield & Diamond Ms. Visconti promoted (7 3 percent subscribe to the S&D on a Directory telephoning begins regular basis) while 62 percent said Donna L. Visconti they were concerned with OKA's was recently The Bernard Harris Co., OKA's financial welfare. promoted to publishing representative for the The "typical" OKA respondent is assistant to the soon-to-be-published alumni directory, married, under age 35 and has about Executive began telephoning alumni in mid-July. two children living at home. He is Director by The telephone campaign serves two employed full time as either a Executive purposes: to obtain, or verify, professional /technician or as a Director Pat demographic information about alumni manager /administrator /proprietor and Halloran. The former administrative to be included in the directory; and, to has an annual family income of over assistant who handles membership sell the directory to interested alumni. $30,000. He most likely lives in the reporting, computer operations, The telephone campaign is the only southern states. equipment ordering and secretarial opportunity alumni have of ordering needs was initially promoted to the the massive directory in either soft or Career Weekend dates Fraternity's executive staff in 1973. hard bound cover. She was a secretary until then, joining The Pi Kappa Alpha directory will Lendman Associates, the career the staff on a part-time basis while in contain some 36,000 alumni who are placement service associated with Pi high school. Ms. Visconti is a subscribers to the Shield & Diamond. Kappa Alpha, will hold several career graduate of Memphis State University Although the Fraternity has over weekends in the near future. Pi Kappa and is a Certified Public Secretary. 80,000 living alumni, many are "lost" Alpha's recent alumni who have from 1------i and other addresses on record are two to five years of work experience 1------i incorrect. Since the printing facilities or a graduate degree are invited to can handle a maximum of 50,000 attend one of the weekends at no $575,000 budget cost (other than transportation or approved by Council names, addresses and other information, only alumni with known correct housing if required). addresses- S&D subscribers- will be For further information contact 'The Supreme Council approved a record Lendman (P.O. Box 14027, Norfolk , $575,000 general fund budget for the included in the publication. The directory is expected to exceed Va. 23518) or telephone (804) 1976-77 fiscal year recently. The 583-5921. break-even budget calls for an equal 1,000 pages and contain information such as occupation, company name, amount in revenue. SEPTEMBER 1976 Income will be produced mainly by address and telephone number in lQ-11 San Francisco, California undergraduate pledgings and initiations addition to normal demographic to-ll St. Louis, Missouri information known about each alumnus. 10-11 Atlanta, Georgia and alumni support. Some $217,500 alumnus. 17-18 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (37 .8 percent) was budgeted income 17-18 Chicago, Illinois from initiation fees and another 24-25 Houston, Texas $80,000 (13.9 percent) in pledge fees. 24-25 Saddle Brook, New Jersey Income from housing and endowment supportive staff salaries; $46,300 (8.1 OCTOBER 1976 funds totals $100,500 (17 .5 percent), percent) in staff travel; $42,300 (7 .4 1- 2 Louisville, Kentucky from undergraduate dues totals percent) in chapter consultant salaries; 8- 9 Boston, Massachusetts $83,000 (14.4 percent) and from $44,300 (7.9%) in Shield & Diamond 15-16 Washington, D.C. 15-16 Atlanta, Georgia alumni gifts totals $57,500 (10 percent). publication, $35,000 (6.2 percent) in 15-16 Chicago, Illinois Expenses are seen as follows: telephone and postage expenses and 15-16 Los Angeles, California $94,000 (16.4 percent) in executive $21,500 (3.7 percent) in alumni 22-23 Saddle Brook, New Jersey staff salaries; $70,150 (12.2 percent) in programming. 29-30 Dallas, Texas